# Tutorial Cannot Work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020 "2016-02-05T03:42:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@gringo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gringo)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020/1 "2016-02-05T03:42:23Z")

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Tried the tutorial in  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/topbeat/current/topbeat-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/topbeat/current/topbeat-getting-started.html)

Keep getting the error after

Command:  
PS C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\topbeat-1.1.0-windows\> Invoke-WebRequest -Method Put -InFile topbeat.template.json -Uri [http://localhost:9200/\_template/topbeat?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_template/topbeat?pretty)

Error:  
Get-Process : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Invoke-WebRequest'.  
At line:1 char:1

- PS C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\topbeat-1.1.0-windows\> Invoke-WebRequest ...
- 

```auto
  + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-Process], ParameterBindingException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetProcessCommand
```

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020/2 "2016-02-05T03:54:05Z")

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What operating system?

What PowerShell version? Use this to check: `PS C:\> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion`

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**Author:** ![gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@gringo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gringo)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020/3 "2016-02-05T03:58:47Z")

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PS C:\Users\Admin\> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major Minor Build Revision

* * *

5 0 10240 16384

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**Author:** ![gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@gringo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gringo)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020/4 "2016-02-05T07:22:30Z")

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Solved the problem by restarting the machine

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020/5 "2016-02-06T03:21:54Z")

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Glad to hear that because I was out of ideas. 😄

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-cannot-work/41020/6 "2017-07-05T21:55:58Z")

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