Windows Security Log Event ID 6406

Operating Systems Windows 2008 R2 and 7
Windows 2012 R2 and 8.1
Windows 2016 and 10
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Category
 • Subcategory		System
 • Other System Events
Type Success
Corresponding events
in Windows 2003
and before		  

6406: %1 registered to Windows Firewall to control filtering for the following:

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%1 registered to Windows Firewall to control filtering for the following: %2.

This event is new to Server 2008 R2. It does not appear in earlier versions.

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Description Fields in 6406

  • %1
  • %2

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Examples of 6406

We have not produced this event. The following is from the Server 2008 R2 manifest:

<event value="6406" version="0" opcode="0" channel="10" level="4" task="0" keywords="0x8000000000000000" message="%1 registered to Windows Firewall to control filtering for the following:
%2.">
</event>

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