Displaying errors in Event Log with Out-GridView in Powershell

A user friendly way to view errors in Event log source from Powershell.

$rawUI = $Host.UI.RawUI
$oldSize = $rawUI.BufferSize
$typeName = $oldSize.GetType( ).FullName
$newSize = New-Object $typeName (500, $oldSize.Height)
$rawUI.BufferSize = $newSize

get-eventlog -logname someacmecompanyname | where-object { $_.source -like '*someeventlogsourcename*' -and $_.EntryType -in ('Error', 'Warning', 'Critical') } | out-gridview

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