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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By : EDRICK GOAD
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

By: EDRICK GOAD

Overview of this book

Automating server tasks allows administrators to repeatedly perform the same, or similar, tasks over and over again. With PowerShell scripts, you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will show several ways for a Windows administrator to automate and streamline his/her job. Learn how to automate server tasks to ease your day-to-day operations, generate performance and configuration reports, and troubleshoot and resolve critical problems. Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook will introduce you to the advantages of using Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell. Each recipe is a building block that can easily be combined to provide larger and more useful scripts to automate your systems. The recipes are packed with examples and real world experience to make the job of managing and administrating Windows servers easier. The book begins with automation of common Windows Networking components such as AD, DHCP, DNS, and PKI, managing Hyper-V, and backing up the server environment. By the end of the book you will be able to use PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as performance monitoring, reporting, analyzing the environment to match best practices, and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching event logs for specific events


Several times after discovering a problem, the first question asked is: How often has this occurred? If the problem is logged in the Windows event log, the answer to that question is only a matter of looking in the logs for the specific error.

However, this can also be problematic. If the event is logged on multiple systems, or in a busy event log, or has been occurring for a long time, searching for the error events can be difficult. Searching for a needle in a large haystack can be next to impossible.

In this recipe, we will cover multiple methods to query the Windows event log.

Getting started

For this recipe, we will be using a basic Windows Server 2012 system.

How to do it...

Complete the following steps to query the event log:

  1. Show the recent events that have been recorded in a specific log.

    Get-WinEvent -LogName System -MaxEvents 10 

    When executed, the last ten events will be displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Show the recent events from...