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How to use a transcript in PowerShell?
Transcript in Powershell is like a recording session. So whenever you start a transcript in PowerShell, it starts recording your commands and outputs and doesn't matter if there is any error output, it gets recorded too. To start the transcript, you need to run Start-Transcript command at the beginning, and then whatever you write, it will get recorded.
To start the recording, you need to write Start-Transcript command and have to give the path for the transcript as shown in the below example,
Example
Start-Transcript -Path C:\Temp\sessionrecord.txt
Once you enter the above command you will get the message as shown below.
Start-Transcript -Path .\Sessionrecording.txt
Output
PS E:\scripts\Powershell> Start-Transcript -Path .\Sessionrecording.txt Transcript started, output file is .\Sessionrecording.txt
Below is the PowerShell session screen after starting the transcript.
Example
PS E:\scripts\Powershell> Get-Service | Select -First 2 Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Stopped AarSvc_777b7 Agent Activation Runtime_777b7 Running AdobeARMservice Adobe Acrobat Update Service PS E:\scripts\Powershell> wrongcommand wrongcommand : The term 'wrongcommand' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + wrongcommand + ~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (wrongcommand:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
The above commands should get recorded in the transcript. Simultaneously you can check the transcript file that the commands and outputs are recorded parallelly.
To stop the transcript, you need to run the Stop-Transcript command.
Example
PS E:\scripts\Powershell> Stop-Transcript Transcript stopped, output file is E:\scripts\Powershell\Sessionrecording.txt
We will now check our transcript file sessionrecording.txt stored at the current location.
********************** Windows PowerShell transcript start Start time: 20200711122407 Username: DESKTOP-9435KM9\admin RunAs User: DESKTOP-9435KM9\admin Configuration Name: Machine: DESKTOP-9435KM9 (Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18362.0) Host Application: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Process ID: 4520 PSVersion: 5.1.18362.752 PSEdition: Desktop PSCompatibleVersions: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1.18362.752 BuildVersion: 10.0.18362.752 CLRVersion: 4.0.30319.42000 WSManStackVersion: 3.0 PSRemotingProtocolVersion: 2.3 SerializationVersion: 1.1.0.1 ********************** Transcript started, output file is .\Sessionrecording.txt PS E:\scripts\Powershell> Get-Service | Select -First 2 Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Stopped AarSvc_777b7 Agent Activation Runtime_777b7 Running AdobeARMservice Adobe Acrobat Update Service PS E:\scripts\Powershell> wrongcommand wrongcommand : The term 'wrongcommand' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + wrongcommand + ~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (wrongcommand:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException wrongcommand : The term 'wrongcommand' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + wrongcommand + ~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (wrongcommand:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException PS E:\scripts\Powershell> Stop-Transcript ********************** Windows PowerShell transcript end End time: 20200711124434 **********************
You can notice in the above output that the user who executed the commands, computer name, start time, and end time is also recorded.
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