{"id":517,"date":"2014-10-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/10\/18\/powertip-find-errors-related-to-update-help\/"},"modified":"2014-10-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-errors-related-to-update-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-errors-related-to-update-help\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Errors Related to Update-Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to find errors related to <\/span>Update-Help<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to find if Update-Help<\/b> is completing successfully on my computer?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Get-WinEvent<\/b> cmdlet and search Windows PowerShell logs for event 4103 and a status level of 2 (error).
           You can narrow the results by adding a start time. When you find the events, use Select-Object<\/b> and the 
           –ExpandProperty<\/b> parameter to expand the message field. Here is a command that looks for errors beginning on
           Sept. 29, 2014 (this is a one-line command that wrapped for readability):<\/p>\n

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{
providername="*powershell*";Level=2;StartTime="9\/29\/14";ID=4103}<\/span><\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find errors related to Update-Help.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find if Update-Help is completing successfully on my computer?  Use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet and search Windows PowerShell logs for event 4103 and a status level of 2 (error).            You can narrow the results by adding a start time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find errors related to Update-Help.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find if Update-Help is completing successfully on my computer?  Use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet and search Windows PowerShell logs for event 4103 and a status level of 2 (error).            You can narrow the results by adding a start time. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}