The term 'get-splogevent' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

Question

I'm new to Sharepoint... and I'm trying to deploy a simple web part.

When I do deploy it and place it on a page, I get an error with a correlation id.

Now, I'm trying to get details about the error, and using Powershell I type...

 get-splogevent | ?{$_Correlation -eq "bcce1b39-f277-4b2b-b8f8-4c113a30f193" }

But it's giving me an error....

The term 'get-splogevent' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:15
+ get-splogevent <<<<  | ?{$_Correlation -eq "bcce1b39-f277-4b2b-b8f8-4c113a30f193" }
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (get-splogevent:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was starting the solo powershell instead of the sharepoint one. In the task bat there is "Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell", using that worked.

Answer 2

Most likely you are on an ordinary Powershell session. The Sharepoint management snap-in is not being loaded, so cmdlet is not found. Take a look at an article that describes how to load the snap-in automatically to all Powershell sessions.

The snap-in is loaded manually like so,

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"