You are troubleshooting ADAM or AD LDS, probably running on a computer you don’t directly administer. Someone has asked you to examine the saved event logs to see if you can determine what’s going on. They may have even already removed that instance as part of their troubleshooting, and all you have left are the event logs for root cause. So you open the saved EVT or EVTX files in EVENTVWR.EXE and see:

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