Creating Your Own Eventlog

In PowerShell v.2, it is very easy to create and maintain your very own event logs to track errors in your scripts or other automation solutions. It's a three-step-journey:

First, create your own event log using New-Eventlog. Note that this requires Admin privileges so you will only need to do this once:

Next, you can start writing events to your event log. For example, all of your log-in scripts could log errors this way because logging does not require special Admin privileges:

To read all logged events, use Get-WinEvent and specify the source as provider name:

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