Email error variable PowerShell
Scenario:
Email error variable PowerShell.
I run a lot of scripts on a schedule basis and I had to check manually of the scripts run successfully. Sometimes a problem in the configuration of a user or group may result in an error while the script is running to perform any changes. If there is an error, either the script runs successfully without applying any changes or the scripts completely fails. I came up with the below solution as a first countermeasure to overcome the above issues.
What the script does actually, is that it takes the default variable of PowerShell called $error and sends it in an email. If there are multiples errors during the run of the script the error variable is an array that holds all the values (errors / exceptions), created during that time. By using Foreach loop, I retrieve all the values and place them in an html variable, so I will be able to send them by email to me. If the error variable is empty then nothing is send.
Related Links:
- PowerShell Scripts
- PowerShell Tutorials
- Send-MailMessage – Microsoft Docs
- Send Email using PowerShell
- Encrypt password with key using PowerShell
- Get-Content – Microsoft Docs
- ConvertTo-SecureString – Microsoft Docs
- New-Object – Microsoft Docs
- Get-Date – Microsoft Docs
Solution / Script:
$File = "C:\Scripts\Password.txt"
$Key = (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32)
$EmailUser = "[email protected]"
$Password = Get-Content $File | ConvertTo-SecureString -Key $Key
$EmailCredentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $EmailUser,$Password
$To = '[email protected]'
$From = '[email protected]'
$EmailResult = ""
if ($error -ne $null) {
foreach ($value in $error) {
$ErrorEmailTemp = @"
<tr>
<td class="colorm">$value</td>
</tr>
"@
$ErrorEmailResult = $ErrorEmailResult + "`r`n" + $ErrorEmailTemp
}
$ErrorEmailUp = @"
<style>
body { font-family:Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif !important; color:#434242;}
TABLE { font-family:Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif !important; border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;border-collapse: collapse;}
TR {border-width: 1px;padding: 10px;border-style: solid;border-color: white; }
TD {font-family:Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif !important; border-width: 1px;padding: 10px;border-style: solid;border-color: white; background-color:#C3DDDB;}
.colorm {background-color:#58A09E; color:white;}
.colort{background-color:#58A09E; padding:20px; color:white; font-weight:bold;}
.colorn{background-color:transparent;}
</style>
<body>
<h3 style="color:#BD3337 !important;"> WARNING!!!</h3>
<p>There were errors during users check</p>
<p>Please check the errors and act accordingly</p>
<table>
"@
$ErrorEmailDown = @"
</table>
</body>
"@
$ErrorEmail = $ErrorEmailUp + $ErrorEmailResult + $ErrorEmailDown
send-mailmessage `
-To $To `
-Subject "Users and their Groups Report $(Get-Date -format dd/MM/yyyy) - WARNING" `
-Body $ErrorEmail `
-BodyAsHtml `
-Priority high `
-UseSsl `
-Port 587 `
-SmtpServer 'smtp.office365.com' `
-From $From `
-Credential $EmailCredentials
}
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