{"id":4947,"date":"2012-09-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/09\/20\/powertip-redirect-powershell-warning-messages-to-a-text-file\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-redirect-powershell-warning-messages-to-a-text-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-redirect-powershell-warning-messages-to-a-text-file\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Redirect PowerShell Warning Messages to a Text File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use the warning redirection operator to redirect Windows PowerShell warning messages to a text file.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can you prevent warning messages from displaying to the Windows PowerShell host, but instead capture them in a text file?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the warning message redirection operator:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$WarningPreference = &#8220;continue&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <\/span>&nbsp;Write-Warning &#8220;this is warning&#8221; 3&gt; c:\\fso\\warning.txt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the warning redirection operator to redirect Windows PowerShell warning messages to a text file. &nbsp;How can you prevent warning messages from displaying to the Windows PowerShell host, but instead capture them in a text file? &nbsp;Use the warning message redirection operator: $WarningPreference = &#8220;continue&#8221; &nbsp;Write-Warning &#8220;this is warning&#8221; 3&gt; c:\\fso\\warning.txt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[362,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powershell-3","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the warning redirection operator to redirect Windows PowerShell warning messages to a text file. &nbsp;How can you prevent warning messages from displaying to the Windows PowerShell host, but instead capture them in a text file? &nbsp;Use the warning message redirection operator: $WarningPreference = &#8220;continue&#8221; &nbsp;Write-Warning &#8220;this is warning&#8221; 3&gt; c:\\fso\\warning.txt<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}