Questions tagged [eventcreate]

Through PowerShell, I am attempting to create a new event log and write a test entry to it, but it is not showing up the Event Viewer. This is the command I'm using to create a new event log: new-eventlog -logname TestLog -source TestLog And to…

I have also asked this question in a Microsoft Forum, but no answers there yet. I am in the process of building out a Windows 2012 server to replace a legacy Windows 2008 server. I am testing a legacy batch script that logs informational or system…

I'd like to use eventcreate from a batch file to log the results of a file copy job (robocopy). What I'd really like to do is use the output of the file copy job as the description of the event (/D of createevent). The trouble is, there are…

I've written a simple batch script that watches some services and regularly restarts them. I've used the eventcreate command to write to the Windows event log, which seems like a good way of logging my actions, but I notice that the 'category'…