{"id":8481,"date":"2012-08-03T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/08\/03\/powertip-finding-specific-cmdlets\/"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T08:25:00","slug":"powertip-finding-specific-cmdlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-finding-specific-cmdlets\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Finding Specific Cmdlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn about important Windows PowerShell cmdlets and how to find them.\n<strong>Question<\/strong>: What are the three MOST important cmdlets?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>: The three most cmdlets are: <strong>G<\/strong><strong>et-Command<\/strong><i>, <\/i><strong>Get-Help<\/strong><i> and <\/i><strong>Get-Member<\/strong><i>.<\/i>\n<strong>Question<\/strong>: Which cmdlet can I use to work with event logs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>: To work with event logs, use the <strong>Get-EventLog<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, or the <strong>Get-WinEvent<\/strong> cmdlet.\n<strong>Question<\/strong>: How did you find that cmdlet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>: Get-Command -Noun *event*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn about important Windows PowerShell cmdlets and how to find them. Question: What are the three MOST important cmdlets? Answer: The three most cmdlets are: Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member. Question: Which cmdlet can I use to work with event logs? Answer: To work with event logs, use the Get-EventLog&nbsp;cmdlet, or the Get-WinEvent cmdlet. Question: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"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-8481","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":"<p>Summary: Learn about important Windows PowerShell cmdlets and how to find them. Question: What are the three MOST important cmdlets? Answer: The three most cmdlets are: Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member. Question: Which cmdlet can I use to work with event logs? Answer: To work with event logs, use the Get-EventLog&nbsp;cmdlet, or the Get-WinEvent cmdlet. Question: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481","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\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/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=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}