Writing Powershell script output to EventData in Event log

[Alex14591 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 1 Points: 14Rank: Member]

Hi all. I’m fairly new to Powershell scripting, and became stumped on this task based on experience & research. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Please see below.

Objective: Output the results of Name, OperatingSystem, OperatingSystemVersion, lastlogondate to an event log. Currently and reasonably, it’s only outputting the message “This is a test” below in the event log. Any suggestions of how to output the results of the script itself to the event log it generates?

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PowerShell

cd c:\scripts Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Select-Object -Property Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemVersion,lastlogondate Write-EventLog -LogName Application -EventID 3000 -EntryType Information -Source ‘AD PC OS Information’ -Message ‘This is a test’

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cd c:\scripts   Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Select-Object -Property Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemVersion,lastlogondate   Write-EventLog -LogName Application -EventID 3000 -EntryType Information -Source ‘AD PC OS Information’ -Message ‘This is a test’

[Doug Maurer Participant Topics: 9 Replies: 704 Points: 2,829Rank: Community Hero]

PowerShell

cd c:\scripts $props = 'Name','OperatingSystem','OperatingSystemVersion','LastLogonDate' $Info = Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property $props | Select-Object -Property $props $template = @" {0} : {1} {2} : {3} {4} : {5} {6} : {7} "@ $info | ForEach-Object { $str = $template -f $($_.psobject.Properties | ForEach-Object {$_.name,$_.value}) Write-EventLog -LogName Application -EventID 3000 -EntryType Information -Source ‘AD PC OS Information’ -Message $str }

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cd c:\scripts   $props = 'Name','OperatingSystem','OperatingSystemVersion','LastLogonDate'   $Info = Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property $props | Select-Object -Property $props   $template = @" {0} : {1}   {2} : {3}   {4} : {5}   {6} : {7} "@   $info | ForEach-Object {     $str = $template -f $($_.psobject.Properties | ForEach-Object {$_.name,$_.value})     Write-EventLog -LogName Application -EventID 3000 -EntryType Information -Source ‘AD PC OS Information’ -Message $str }

[Alex14591 Participant Topics: 1 Replies: 1 Points: 14Rank: Member]

This is perfect, thanks Doug!

[Rob Simmers Participant Topics: 17 Replies: 1951 Points: 3,986Rank: Community Hero]

@Doug Nice script!

[Doug Maurer Participant Topics: 9 Replies: 704 Points: 2,829Rank: Community Hero]

Lol thanks @Rob  it was the only way I could make it look nice with varying value lengths

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