Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable with multiple IDs in a variable not working

Question

This work for me:

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{Logname = "ForwardedEvents" ; ID = 4625,4740}

(.... results I expect...)

This works:

$EventId = "4625"Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{Logname = "ForwardedEvents" ; ID = $EventId}

This doesn't work:

$EventId = "4625,4740"Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{Logname = "ForwardedEvents" ; ID = $EventId}

Error...

 Get-WinEvent : No events were found that match the specified selection criteria.At line:1 char:13+ Get-WinEvent <<<< -FilterHashTable @{Logname = "ForwardedEvents" ; ID = $EventIds}+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-WinEvent], Exception+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoMatchingEventsFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWinEventCommand

Can anyone help please?

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Accepted Answer

Just change it to $EventId = 4625,4740 (remove the quotes) and that should work. Looking at the documentation for Get-WinEvent and the -FilterHashTable we see:

-- ID=<Int32[]>

So it is expecting an array and not a string.

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable with multiple IDs in a variable not working

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