From Event Logs to AI Workflows with Lucas Allman

About this episode

Lucas Allman discusses practical PowerShell use cases and the impact of AI on IT careers.

Lucas Allman joins the PowerShell Podcast for a conversation that starts with practical beginner wins and builds into bigger questions about AI, learning, community, and career growth in IT. The episode covers hands-on PowerShell use cases like event logs, scheduled tasks, and writing functions directly in the terminal, then shifts into Lucas’s experience as a first-time PowerShell Summit speaker and his evolving perspective on AI as a tool for both productivity and learning. It lands on a strong human note, with Lucas reflecting on impostor syndrome, keeping up with change, and why curiosity and community still matter just as much as technical skill. Key Takeaways:· Event logs are a great early PowerShell win. Lucas walks through using Get-WinEvent to explore logs, filter for errors, search messages, and troubleshoot faster without waiting on the Event Viewer GUI. He also shares a practical tip for reusing XML or XPath filters from Event Viewer inside PowerShell scripts.· You can do more from the terminal than most people realize. Lucas explains how he writes full functions directly in the interactive shell, then saves them with a custom helper function so good code does not…

People in this episode

Guest: Lucas Allman

Topics covered

• PowerShell
• AI workflows
• event logs
• career growth
• impostor syndrome
• community

Keywords

• PowerShell
• event logs
• AI
• career growth
• impostor syndrome
• community
• scheduled tasks
• functions
• Get-WinEvent

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Organizations: PowerShell Podcast, PDQ.com

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