As I created an earlier post with a simple logging function in poweshell, a while ago I upgraded this with a specific Error, Success and info switch. This way I can put it with simple colors as output on screen to see if something goes wrong or good. And also logging will be better searchable.

$Logfile = "D:\LogFile.txt"

Function LogWrite{
<#
<span style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6em;">.SYNOPSIS This functions is used to generate a log file
</span><span style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.6em;">.DESCRIPTION Function creates output on screen depending on given switch and writes this with error code to the logfile
.PARAMETER $Logstring Location to the logfile
.PARAMETER $Error Switch to identify an error message
.PARAMETER $Success Switch to identify a success message
.PARAMETER $Info Switch to identify an info message
.EXAMPLE PS C:\&gt; Logwrite -error "This is an error"
</span> .INPUTS
System.String,System.Switch
.OUTPUTS
System.String
#&gt;

[CmdletBinding()]
[OutputType([System.String])]
Param(
[string]$Logstring,
[switch]$Error,
[switch]$Success,
[switch]$Info

)
try {
if ($Error){
$logstring = (Get-Date).ToString() + " ERROR: " + $logstring
Write-Host -ForegroundColor red $logstring
}
elseif ($Success){
$logstring = (Get-Date).ToString() + " SUCCESS: " + $logstring
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green $logstring
}
elseif ($Info){
$logstring = (Get-Date).ToString() + " INFO: " + $logstring
Write-Host $logstring
}
else {
$logstring = (Get-Date).ToString() + " INFO: " + $logstring
Write-Host $logstring
}
Add-content $Logfile -value $logstring
}
catch {
throw
}
}

#Example

logwrite -success "Success creating user: $user"
logwrite -error "Error creating user $user"
logwrite -info"Success quering user: $user"