I was having a hard time to reading the Windows 2012 R2 Failover cluster log from my live server. That is why I just wrote a simple PowerShell script to get the job done for me. By using id = 1641 I can get the information when my failover occurred.
Open the PowerShell console and type the scripts, put your own server name in the place of “ServerName”.
Get-winEvent -ComputerName ServerName -filterHashTable @{logname = 'Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering/Operational'; id=1641} 
Part 11 of our series on "Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2008 AMO" discusses how to generate a script for given dimension of the Analysis Service database to XMLA format file.
2009-05-01
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To continue this series on Introduction to Windows PowerShell for the SQL Server DBA, this tip will look at the pipeline and output processing.
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Learn how to restore an Analysis Services database to the same or different location, from a database backup file with password protection.
2009-02-24
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Part 8 of our discussion on how to check SQL Server using Windows PowerShell examines how to get the SQL Server connection information.
2008-11-12
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For all of us who learn best by trying out examples, Bob Sheldon produces a PowerShell script file for SQL Server that can be used in either SQL Server 2005 or 2008, has error handling and prompts for user-input, is easily extended and, does something useful. He then explains how to run it and what each line does.
2008-11-04
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