How do you design useful logging for an administrative PowerShell script?
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Log decisions, targets, start/end times, correlation identifiers, errors and verification results.
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Log decisions, targets, start/end times, correlation identifiers, errors and verification results. Keep structured operational records separate from secrets and use verbose/debug streams for detail that should not contaminate normal output.
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1PS> Write-Information -Tags Audit -MessageData ([pscustomobject]@{Action= 'Check';Target= 'Server01' })
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When would you use Start-Transcript, and what does it fail to capture cleanly?
