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John Ring
John Ring

Reputation: 57

PowerShell Write-EventLog CmdLet works manually, not in script

I am writing a PowerShell script to disable and move users with in AD. this part works great. However I would like to log each event in the event log. The cmdlet Write-EventLog works fine when typed manually.

Write-EventLog –LogName ManageAD –Source “ManageUsers Script” –EntryType Information –EventID 1 –Message “This is a test message"

However, when I add the cmdlet to the script it errors.

Write-EventLog –LogName ManageAD –Source “ManageUsers Script” –EntryType Information –EventID 1 –Message “User ” + $SAM + " has been disabled"

Write-EventLog : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Scriptâ??'.
At C:\test\ManageUsers.ps1:12 char:16
+     Write-EventLog <<<<  â?"LogName ManageAD â?"Source â?oManageUsers Scriptâ?? â?"EntryType Information â?"EventID
 â?"Message â?oUser â?? + $SAM + " has been disabled"
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Write-EventLog], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteEventLogCommand

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1289

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 46700

Want to say the simple answer is you have smart quotes in your code. Those came from where you originally copied that code or a product of your testing environment. Either way you need to watch out for those buggers. 

Write-EventLog –LogName ManageAD –Source “ManageUsers Script” –EntryType Information –EventID 1 –Message “User ” + $SAM + " has been disabled"

Should be instead.

Write-EventLog –LogName ManageAD –Source "ManageUsers Script" –EntryType Information –EventID 1 –Message "User " + $SAM + " has been disabled"

I would like to point out from the error that I see other artifacts as well...

â?"LogName ManageAD â?"

It makes me wonder if the hyphens are the long ones like an em-dash (Comes back to an earlier question about your editor choice!).

See the difference subtle here between the hyphen and 2 dashes - – —. Also have your dash against the basic hyphen. The one on the right is the hyphen.

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Was the code working inside the ISE maybe and you were running the script in the regular console?

Upvotes: 2

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