Installation and Configuration of software products generates some events that are seen by the Microsoft Windows Operating System itself. This type of logging is always available – you do not need to enable it. You can find it by launching the Event Viewer and can save the events out for someone else to analyze.
Select Start > Search programs and files, and then and type eventvwrto start the Event Viewer.
On the left, select Windows Logs > Application.
On the right, click Save All Events As.
Save the file as type Event Files (*.evtx).
As noted above, 'logging from the registry key is highly preferred. In the case where logging from the command line is necessary, try one of these examples:
where {SoftwareProductName} is one of the Installable Applications under SoftwareProductName identified in Installable Application Names Table in Installing ProductName in Silent Mode document.
