This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'New-WinEvent', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Creates a new Windows event for the specified event provider.
New-WinEvent [-ProviderName] <String> [-Id] <Int32> [[-Payload] <Object[]>] [-Version <Byte>] [<CommonParameters>]
The New-WinEvent cmdlet creates an Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) event for an event provider. You can use this cmdlet to add events to ETW channels from Windows PowerShell.
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Get-WinEvent
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Example 1
PS C:\>New-WinEvent -ProviderName Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell -Id 45090 -Payload @("Workflow", "Running")
This command uses the New-WinEvent cmdlet to create event 45090 for the Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell provider.