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As the name suggests, the Start-Transcript cmdlet creates a text transcript of a PowerShell session. This cmdlet comes in handy when you want to review or share the content of a previous session. You can also use this cmdlet to troubleshoot issues by sending the transcript to someone who can help.

You can run the Start-Transcript cmdlet without any parameters to start a transcript. This cmdlet starts a transcript of the current session and will save it in your user's document directory with a timestamped name. This cmdlet automatically generates a random name with random characters for the transcript file.

The Stop-Transcript cmdlet stops a transcript that was started by the Start-Transcript cmdlet. Alternatively, you can end a session to stop a transcript.

Transcript files should be grouped by day in a directory named YYYY-mm-dd (e.g., 2022-07-22) under a named directory. Transcript files should include the date and time information in the file name.

The random characters ensure that the filename is unique when two PowerShell sessions are started simultaneously. To start the transcript we can simply use the cmdlet Start-Transcript . Then after we have executed the scripts that we want to run, we can stop the transcript with Stop-Transcript .

Enable PowerShell transcription by simply selecting the Enable option and clicking OK. You can also specify a transcript output folder if you would like one. If you opt to not specify an output directory, the PowerShell transcripts will be saved to the user's Documents folder.

The Start-Transcript cmdlet creates a record of all or part of a PowerShell session to a text file. The transcript includes all command that the user types and all output that appears on the console.

A PowerShell transcript is a simple text file that contains a history of all commands and their output. Think of a transcript as a command history you can get with the Get-History command. However, instead of just seeing all commands run, you can also see the output of those commands as well.

How to record a command session in PowerShellOpen Start.Search for PowerShell, click the top result to open the experience.Type the following command to start recording the session to a text file and press Enter: Start-Transcript -Path "C:\\FOLDER\\PATH\\POWERSHELL_TRANSCRIPT_FILENAME.txt" -NoClobber.Mar 18, 2019

Your transcript should include page numbers, a title, and the date. It's also a good idea to include an abbreviated version of the title and date in a header or footer on the page. You also need to identify the different voices on the recording. You can use the first letter of each person's name or a nickname.