Chaining Powershell commands - now with email alerts

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:06:59 +0000

I recently talked about some simple functionality to chain Powershell commands together so that you can time long-running processes.

I decided to take this concept a little further so that Powershell will send email messages at start and finish so I don’t need to keep checking for when a long-running process has actually finished.

The idea is simple:

You send a message when it starts
You run the process
You send a message when it ends

Note: this assumes you’re in a Windows domain environment with access to an Exchange server. In order to authenticate against Exchange, you obviously need a domain account and be aware, there may be some things about your Exchange environment that does not allow this functionality (e.g., no relaying etc.) If you’re not in an Exchange environment, you’ll need to set the SMTP server of whatever you’re using.

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Chaining Powershell commands - now with email alerts