List Events from the Event Logs

Description

Retrieves events from the Application and System event logs. This script requires both Windows PowerShell and the corresponding version of the .NET Framework.

Source Code

$strComputer = "."
$colItems = get-wmiobject -class "Win32_NTLogEvent" -namespace "root\CIMV2" `-computername $strComputer
foreach ($objItem in $colItems) {
write-host "Category: " $objItem.Category
write-host "Category String: " $objItem.CategoryString
write-host "Compute rName: " $objItem.ComputerName
write-host "Data: " $objItem.Data
write-host "Event Code: " $objItem.EventCode
write-host "Event Identifier: " $objItem.EventIdentifier
write-host "Event Type: " $objItem.EventType
write-host "Insertion Strings: " $objItem.InsertionStrings
write-host "Logfile: " $objItem.Logfile
write-host "Message: " $objItem.Message
write-host "Record Number: " $objItem.RecordNumber
write-host "Source Name: " $objItem.SourceName
write-host "Time Generated: " $objItem.TimeGenerated
write-host "Time Written: " $objItem.TimeWritten
write-host "Type: " $objItem.Type
write-host "User: " $objItem.User
write-host
}