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Event ID 2051: … has encountered an error trying to upload a suspicious file for further analysis

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

Look up a Windows event ID from Event Viewer, a SIEM alert or a log export: what it means, the fields it records, and what to check. Many IDs are used by more than one source (event 41 is both a Kernel-Power crash and a boot error), so every definition is shown, the one people usually mean first. The message text is Windows' own, read from the event providers of Windows 10.0.26200.0, 2026-10-28; the notes are ours, based on Microsoft's security auditing reference.

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… has encountered an error trying to upload a suspicious file for further analysis.

Event 2051
Windows Defender
Windows Defender/Operational log
Error
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
… has encountered an error trying to upload a suspicious file for further analysis.
 	Filename: …
 	Sha256: …
 	Current security intelligence Version: …
 	Current Engine Version: …
 	Error code: …

Tenant Restrictions Policy Update

Event 2051
Windows Firewall With Advanced Security
Windows Firewall With Advanced Security/Firewall log
Information
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
Tenant Restrictions Policy Update

Error code:	…
Policy Change:	…