Security Compliance

Monitor software installation and uninstallation events

This article contains information on how to search for software installation and software uninstallation events for Windows hosts.

First published date

11/29/2018 10:33 PM

Last published date

5/11/2020 9:18 PM

Overview

This article applies to Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).
This article contains information on how to search for software installation and software uninstallation events for Windows hosts.

Product section

Security Event Manager

Resolution

Windows logs has several different events when you install or uninstall software. All of these events appear in SEM as the SoftwareInstall event type. Here are a few details on each operation's events:

Installation events can have an Event ID of 11707 or 1033. The InstallOperation field of these events indicate Installation completed.
Uninstallation events can have an Event ID of 11724 or 1034. The InstallOperation field of these events indicate Removal completed.

Refer to the following image showing the installation and uninstallation events of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC:

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