Chapter 9. Troubleshooting Servers with PowerShell

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Testing if a server is responding
  • Using troubleshooting packs
  • Using Best Practices Analyzers
  • Searching event logs for specific events
  • Forwarding event logs to a central log server

Introduction

This chapter covers utilization of PowerShell troubleshooting packs, Windows Best Practices Analyzers, and using Windows event logs. This includes basic monitoring and the configuration of services, as well as creating a central event log server.

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