Question

Display a list of the 50 newest entries from the security event log (you can use a different, such as System or Application, if your security log is empty). Sort the list from the oldest entries appearing first, and with entries made at the same time sorted by their index. Display the index, time, and source for each entry Put this information into a txt file. You may be tempted to use Select-Object and its -first or -last parameter to achieve this; don't. There's a better way. Also, avoid using Get-WinEvent for now; better cmdlet is available for this task.

Answer 1

To display the 50 newest entries from the security event log in PowerShell, you can use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet. Sort the entries by the oldest appearing first, and use the -Count parameter to limit the results to 50. Then, use the Format-Table cmdlet to select the desired properties and output them to a txt file.

Step-by-step explanation:

To display a list of the 50 newest entries from the security event log, you can use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet in PowerShell. Instead of using the -first or -last parameters, you can specify the -Newest parameter and provide a value of 50 to retrieve the most recent log entries. By using the -Oldest parameter in combination with the -Count parameter, you can sort the list from the oldest entries appearing first. To select and display the index, time, and source for each entry, you can pipe the output of Get-WinEvent to the Format-Table cmdlet and specify the desired properties.

To display the 50 newest entries from a Windows event log, sorted from the oldest to the newest with entries made at the same time sorted by their index, you can leverage the PowerShell cmdlet Get-EventLog. This cmdlet is more suitable for older logs and systems; for modern systems, Get-WinEvent would typically be preferred. However, since the question specifies not to use Get-WinEvent, we will proceed with Get-EventLog.