Ed Wilsons Powershell Tour To Regina, Sk

I want to thank Ed Wilson for coming into Regina for our initial powershell course. The technical content is great and the information that can be pulled out with Powershell is simply awesome. Ed has a technical savvy that would put most codes out to pasture. He really understands the underlying fundementals that make a good class very good.

So what have I got from this class? My inital goals were to take some Old VB scripts that I had written years ago for my Exchange 2003 project. I am working on translating and enhancing these reports. Certainly powershell makes this a Snap. Here is the first and most basic script. I want to get the WhiteSpace information out of a remote Exchange cluster 2003 server where powershell is not installed. This is my first cut at it and I will look at adding totals and more information soon. Stay tuned for a few more scripts....

# Setup the Eventlog for the application log on a Remote server
$log = new-object system.diagnostics.eventlog("application","ServerName")

# Prepare a table in HTML to house the information (Right from MS!)
$a = ""

#Prepare to generate a CDO message to email the report
$mail=new-object -comobject cdo.message
$mail.From = "report@mydomain.com"
$mail.To = "Someuser@mydomain.com"
$mail.Subject = "White Space report for " + $(get-date)

# Set the HTML body of the Email the actual report - This is the meat and potatos of it
$mail.htmlbody=$log.get_entries() where-object { $_.timewritten -ge (get-date).adddays(-1) -and $_.eventID -eq 1221}
select-object -Property EventID, MachineName, Message, TimeGenerated convertto-html -head $a -body "

PowerShell Whitespace Report for Exchange Cluster

"



# Complete the email and send it out

$mail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
$mail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtpRelayServer@mydomain.com"
$mail.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
$mail.Configuration.Fields.Update()
$mail.send()