Showing archive results for October 2015

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about checking the performance of various event log queries. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the great things about Windows PowerShell is that I can use Windows PowerShell to see how it is doing and how to optimize it. Sometimes the difference between one query and another query...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to query multiple event logs at one time.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to query events that happened and may be in multiple event logs?  Use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet, specify the LogName parameter for both logs, and specify today            ...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using Windows PowerShell to query event logs. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I talk a bit more about using Windows PowerShell to make queries from the event log. Although most large enterprises already have an event log monitoring application, at times it is useful to do t...

Summary: Follow the adventures of PowerShell superheroes.  How can I follow the adventures of a couple of PowerShell superheroes as they use PowerShell commands to solve            real world problems?  You want to follow the adventures of BATCHman and Cmdlet (the boy blunder) as they battle Tapeworm, th...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about filtering event log events with the Get-WinEvent cmdlet.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I try to use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet to search event logs, but it is pretty hard to do. Also, I don’t see the nice switches that I had with Get-EventLog, so I don’t see why I should use the other cm...