The Get-Event cmdlet gets events in the PowerShell event queue for the current session. You can get all events or use the EventIdentifier or SourceIdentifier parameter to specify the events. When an event occurs, it is added to the event queue. The event queue includes events for which you have registered, events created by using the New-Event cmdlet, and the event that is raised when PowerShell exits. You can use Get-Event or Wait-Event to get the events. This cmdlet does not get events from the Event Viewer logs. To get those events, use Get-WinEvent or Get-EventLog.

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The Export-Clixml cmdlet creates a Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) XML-based representation of an object or objects and stores it in a file. You can then use the Import-Clixml cmdlet to recreate the saved object based on the contents of that file. For more information about CLI, see Language independence. This cmdlet is similar to ConvertTo-Xml, except that Export-Clixml stores the resulting XML in a file. ConvertTo-XML returns the XML, so you can continue to process it in PowerShell. A valuable use of Export-Clixml on Windows computers is to export credentials and secure strings securely as XML. For an example, see Example 3.

The Compress-Archive cmdlet creates a compressed, or zipped, archive file from one or more specified files or directories. An archive packages multiple files, with optional compression, into a single zipped file for easier distribution and storage. An archive file can be compressed by using the compression algorithm specified by the CompressionLevel parameter. The Compress-Archive cmdlet uses the Microsoft .NET API System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive to compress files. The maximum file size is 2 GB because there's a limitation of the underlying API. Some examples use splatting to reduce the line length of the code samples. For more information, see about_Splatting.