To turn PowerShell results in a HTML report, simply pipe the results to ConvertTo-Html, then save the result to file. So in its most basic form, it would look like the code below. It creates a report with all event log system errors that occurred in the past 48 hours:
#requires -Version 2.0 # store report here $Path = "$env:temp\eventreport.htm" # set the start date $startDate = (Get-Date).AddHours(-48) # get data and convert it to HTML Get-EventLog -LogName System -EntryType Error -After $startDate | ConvertTo-Html | Set-Content -Path $Path # open the file with associated program Invoke-Item -Path $Path
However, the resulting report would not only look ugly but also contain a lot of useless information. So the first step in refinement would be to select the properties (columns) you want to see in your report. Simply add Select-Object to your code:
#requires -Version 2.0 $Path = "$env:temp\eventreport.htm" $startDate = (Get-Date).AddHours(-48) Get-EventLog -LogName System -EntryType Error -After $startDate | # select the properties to be included in your report Select-Object -Property EventId, Message, Source, InstanceId, TimeGenerated, ReplacementStrings, UserName | ConvertTo-Html | Set-Content -Path $Path Invoke-Item -Path $Path
