Logging PowerShell Profiles

Last month we dove into the world of PowerShell profile scripts. These configuration scripts run automatically every time you start a PowerShell session. As long as you aren’t manually starting PowerShell with the -NoProfile parameter. If you are using the profile script hierarchy as I suggested, there is one more element you may want to include, and that is logging.

Windows logs a lot of PowerShell activity, regardless of how it starts. We’ll look at this in a future article. I’m referring to generating a log of profile script activity. I use this, and I thought you might find it helpful. Or, at the very least, you might be able to leverage the concepts.

LogPSStart

The core concept is to write a text message to a log file. I’ll record activity in each profile script to this central log file. I’m not doing anything fancy. Here is the basic PowerShell function I am using.