techtarget

Find and filter Windows event logs using PowerShell Get-EventLog

The Windows OS is designed to create a record of various system events by writing entries into event logs. Administrators normally access the event logs through the Windows Event Viewer. However, it's ...
MCPmag

Filtering Command Output in PowerShell

In which Adam demonstrates the truth in the old PowerShell adage: "The more you can limit the number of objects returned to the pipeline, the faster you code will run." Lots of commands will return ...
Ars Technica

Powershell, get-winevent, and -filterhashtable

I'm writing a script to filter event log entries using the "Get-Winevent" cmdlet. I want to get events whose levels are greater than 0 (or where LevelName isn't "Informational"). I use the ...
MCPmag

Introduction to the Where Method in PowerShell

If you have been using PowerShell for a while, or even just picked it up yesterday, you have no doubt used Where-Object and ForEach-Object at some point in your scripting experience. The beauty of ...