All about Group Chat logging

Where are Group Chat Installation logs located?

The Group Chat installation logs are written to a folder “MgcSetup” in the %temp% directory on Group Chat server or client machine.

MgcServer.log (For the Group Chat Server Installation)
MgcAdmin.log (For the Admin tool installation)
MgcClient.log (For the Client installation)

Where is Group Chat Admin Tool Log located?

Group Chat server is installed but has some problem. In this case you can collect the Group chat Admin Tool log. By default you can find Group Chat Admin tool log under %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Group Chat\Admin Tool\Logs.

How to raise the Logging Level of Group Chat clients?

Open following files…
%appdata%\Microsoft\Group Chat\Admin Tool\AdminToolLogger.xml
%appdata%\Microsoft\Group Chat\Group Chat Console\GroupChatConsoleLogger.xml

By default you will have Level defined to report just INFO…
<level value="INFO" />

You may want to change that to “ALL”
<level value="ALL" />

Save files and restart the client. You would see the files at following location

%appdata%\Microsoft\Group Chat\Admin Tool\Logs\AdminTool.log
%appdata%\Microsoft\Group Chat\Group Chat Console\Logs\GroupChatConsole.log

How to enable Additional logging for group chat clients?

Enable following registry keys to enable additional logging for Group Chat …

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Tracing\uccapi\GroupChatConsole
i. "EnableFileTracing"=dword:00000001
ii. "EnableConsoleTracing"=dword:00000001
iii. "EnableDebuggerTracing"=dword:00000001

These logs can be found under %userprofile%\tracing. The filename would be GroupChatConsole-uccapi-0.uccapilog.