Because the logs contained in the Event Viewer are determined by the size setting not the date, please open your Event Viewer, just go to Windows Logs - Application, scroll down to the bottom to check what's the Date and Time it records. If you can go back to 7 months, maybe you find get the logs back. If not, I'm afraid you cannot find those old logs. In addition, the event logs can be exported. See the details here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749339.aspx Regards, MiyaMiya Yao TechNet Community Support

No auditing has been configured on the Windows 2003 server standard edition sp2. I realized that in the event viewer for the security logs that it shows for that month (August). I would like to go back as far as 7 months. Is this possible by locating other logs on the server. Can these logs be printed? Can you view these logs with Microsoft Word or any other application.

Because the logs contained in the Event Viewer are determined by the size setting not the date, please open your Event Viewer, just go to Windows Logs - Application, scroll down to the bottom to check what's the Date and Time it records. If you can go back to 7 months, maybe you find get the logs back. If not, I'm afraid you cannot find those old logs. In addition, the event logs can be exported. See the details here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749339.aspx Regards, MiyaMiya Yao TechNet Community Support