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My question is related to write permissions to the Windows Event Log. I have looked around several posts concering this, and have found some ways to solve my problem, but none of these are acceptable for my current scenario. I use C# in .NET 4.0. I use the EventLog class: EventLog class In short, I need to see if there is a way to impersonate or authenticate with an authenticated user and password to reach the right I need to write to the Event Log. The server will always be in the Windows Server family, but the version may vary. My application is a Windows Service running with one of the following accounts: Network Service Local Service Local System User with restricted rights (Users or Domain Users groups) Here are some other criterias I have: I cannot put the service user as Administrator, not even local administrator on the server I cannot edit or alter the registry I cannot alter the UAC or any group policies on the server I have a user with Administrator rights, but it cannot be used to run the service The Event Log will always be the local Event Log, not on a remote machine The Log will probably always be the "Application" log The Source may vary , and that seems to be the heart of the problem My question is : Is this at all possible? Can I impersonate a user in my code to achieve what I need? I do that when connecting to web services, logging on to smtp servers and of courseclogging in to databases etc. I stumbled into this class: EventLogPermission Class But I cannot seem to get a good concept on how to use the class. <

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