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Thank once again to the Palm Beach IT User Group for having my presenting live my session “PowerShell for the Administrator – All About The Language” on May 14th evening.   http://itportalregulus.blogspot.com/

The group had the opportunity to see the evolution from a single one-liner command, to a script file, a function, and a brief taste to a module.  Also, the scripts supplied has an abundant of code snippets that can be reused.

Also, giving example of reusing and modifying a community script (Thx, Jefferey Hicks for his contributions) so you can make it your own.

Here’s some reference links: http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2012/02/create-html-bar-charts-from-powershell/ and http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2011/12/friday-fun-drive-usage-console-graph/

Special Thanks to Sapien Technology for providing some books to giveaway and to Plurasight for the free one month online subscription.

Here’s the end result.  A function that check the machine disk space, build an HTML file with a graph and send an email thru your live.com SMTP server.

[sourcecode language=”powershell”]
function Get-DiskUsageHTMLGraph{
Param(
[array] $ComputerNames,
[string] $ReportPath = "c:\Temp\HTML_DiskSpace.html",
[boolean] $ViewReport,
[boolean] $SendEmail,
[Array] $SendTo
)

## – Set variable (no function):
$htmlTitle=’Server Drive(s) Report’

## – Configuring the HTML CSS Style sheet for the HTML code: (#FFFFCC)
## – When using Here-String/Splatting you must begin in the first position.
## – The use of Tab is invalid.
$head = @"

$($htmlTitle)

"@

## – Define the HTML Fragments as an Array type, add the header and title object:
[Array] $HTMLfragments = $null; $HTMLfragments += $head;
$HTMLfragments+="</pre>
<h1>Server Disk Space</h1>
<pre>

";

## – Build WMI Disk information object and group results by ComputerNames:
$SystemNames = get-wmiobject -Class Win32_logicaldisk -computer $ComputerNames `
| Group-Object -Property SystemName;

## – This is the graph character code:
[string] $gCode = [char] 9608;

## – Loop through each computer object found and create html fragments:
ForEach ($System in $SystemNames)
{
## – Get the System name:
$HTMLfragments+="</pre>
<h2>$($System.Name)</h2>
<pre>
"

## – Create an html fragment for each system found:
$html = $System.group `
| Where-Object {$_.DriveType -notmatch ‘5|2′} | Sort-Object -Property Name `
| Select-Object `
SystemName, @{Label = "DriveID";Expression={$_.Name}}, `
VolumeName, FileSystem, DriveType, `
@{Label="DiskSizeGB";Expression={"{0:N}" -f ($_.Size/1GB) -as [float]}}, `
@{Label="FreeSpaceGB";Expression={"{0:N}" -f ($_.FreeSpace/1GB) -as [float]}}, `
@{Label="PercFree";Expression={"{0:N}" -f ($_.FreeSpace/$_.Size*100) -as [float]}}, `
@{Label="Low if(($_.FreeSpace/$_.Size*100) -le ’15’) `
{ `
"- Critical -"; `
} `
Else `
{ `
$null; `
}; `
}}, `
@{Name="";Expression={ `
$UsedPer = (($_.Size – $_.Freespace)/$_.Size)*100; `
$UsedGraph = $gCode * ($UsedPer/2); `
$FreeGraph = $gCode * ((100-$UsedPer)/2); `
"xltFont color=Redxgt{0}xlt/FontxgtxltFont Color=Greenxgt{1}xlt/fontxgt" `
-f $usedGraph,$FreeGraph; `
}} | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment;

## – Replacing replace the tag place holders: (Jefferey’s hack at work)
$html=$html -replace ‘xlt’,’
## – Add the Disk information results to the HTML fragment:
$HTMLfragments+=$html;

## – Insert a line break for each computer it find:
$HTMLfragments+="
";
}

## – Add a footer to HTML code:
$footer=("
<em>Report run {0} by {1}\{2}<em>" -f (Get-Date -displayhint date),$env:userdomain,$env:username)
$HTMLfragments+=$footer

## – Write HTML code to a file on disk:
ConvertTo-Html -head $head -body $HTMLfragments | Out-File $ReportPath;

if($ViewReport -eq $true)
{
ii $ReportPath;
}

if($SendEmail -eq $true)
{
## – Setting the information for hotmail:
$MyEmailAcct = "UserX@live.com";
$MyPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString ‘$myPassword!’ -AsPlainText -Force;
$MyCredentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $MyEmailAcct,$MyPassword
[Array] $emaillist = @(‘User1@gmail.com’,’UserX@live.com’);

## – OR, send it as a body message in the email:
$GetError = $null;
Send-MailMessage `
-From ‘MySysAdmin-DoNotReply@MySysAdmin.com’ `
-To $SendTo `
-Subject "Diskspace Information for the date – $((Get-Date).ToString("MMddyyyy, HH:MM"))" `
-BodyAsHtml ([string] (ConvertTo-Html -head $head -body $HTMLfragments)) `
-SmtpServer ‘smtp.live.com’ `
-Credential $MyCredentials `
-UseSsl `
-Port 587 `
-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue `
-ErrorVariable GetError;

if($GetError -ne $null)
{
$date = (get-Date).ToString("MMddyyyy_HHMMss");
"Sender: $($getCred1.UserName) `r`n $GetError" | `
Out-File -FilePath "C:\Temp\log\emailerror_$date.txt";
};
};
};

[/sourcecode]

Sample results for email to live.com:

Sample Browser:

Here’s the zipped presentation link:

While working on my PowerShell demo scripts today, I decided to create a simple function to display my scripts during my presentations.  Here’s my new and simple Show-PSDemo function:

[sourcecode language=”powershell”]
#========================================================================
# Created with: SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2012 v3.1.15
# Created on: 1/13/2013 9:07 AM
# Created by: Maximo Trinidad
# Organization: PutItTogether
# Filename: Show-PSDemo_function.ps1
# Version: 0.1
#========================================================================

function Show-PSDemo{
Param([String] $FileLocation)

## – Verify for a valid file location:
if((Test-Path -Path $FileLocation) -ne $true)
{
Write-Host "No script files to execute!" `
-ForegroundColor ‘Yellow’;
Break;
}
else
{
[Array] $executethis = Get-Content $FileLocation;
};

## – Saved previous default Host Colors:
$defaultForegroundColor = $host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor;
$defaultBackgroundColor = $host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor;

## – Customizing Host Colors:
$host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = "Cyan";
$host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = "Black";
$StartDemoTime = [DateTime]::now; $i = 0;
Clear-Host;

Write-Host "Demo Start Time: $([DateTime]::now)" -ForeGroundColor ‘White’;
Write-Host "`t Running Script file: $FileLocation" -ForegroundColor ‘Yellow’;

foreach($line in $executethis)
{
$i++
## – Identify comment lines:
if($line.Startswith(‘#’)){
Write-Host -NoNewLine $("`n[$i]PS> ")
Write-Host -NoNewLine -Foreground ‘Green’ $($($line) + " ")
}
Else
{
## – add section identify oneliners with continuation tick:
[string] $Addline = $null;
if($line -match ‘`’)
{
#Write-Host " Found tick = `t`r`n $($line)" -ForegroundColor yellow;
$Addline = $line.replace(‘`’,”).tostring();
$Scriptline += $Addline;
$tickFound = $true;
$continuation = $true;

## – List oneliner with continuation tick:
Write-Host -NoNewLine $("`n[$i]PS> ");
Write-Host -NoNewLine $line;
}
else
{
## – identify the last line of a continuation oneliner:
if($tickFound -eq $true)
{
$Scriptline += $line;
$tickFound = $false;
$continuation = $false;

## – List oneliner with continuation tick:
Write-Host -NoNewLine $("`n[$i]PS> ");
Write-Host -NoNewLine $line "`r`n";
}
Else
{
## – Single onliner found:
$Scriptline = $line;
$continuation = $false;
Write-Host -NoNewLine $("`n[$i]PS> ")
Write-Host -NoNewLine $Scriptline "`r`n";
};
};
if($continuation -eq $false)
{
## – Executive:
Write-Host "`r`n`t Executing Script…`r`n" -ForegroundColor ‘Yellow’;
Invoke-Expression $(‘.{‘ +$Scriptline + ‘}| out-host’);
$Scriptline = $null;
}
## – ——————————————————————–
if($continuation -eq $false)
{
Write-Host "`r`n– Press Enter to continue –" -ForegroundColor ‘Magenta’ `
-BackgroundColor white;
Read-Host;
};
};
};

$DemoDurationTime = ([DateTime]::Now) – $StartDemoTime;
Write-Host ("`t <Demo Duration: {0} Minutes and {1} Seconds>" `
-f [int]$DemoDurationTime.TotalMinutes, [int]$DemoDurationTime.Seconds)
-ForeGroundColor ‘Yellow’ ;
Write-Host "`t Demo Completed at: $([DateTime]::now))" -ForeGroundColor ‘White’;

## – Set back to Default Color:
$host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = $defaultForegroundColor;
$host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = $defaultBackgroundColor;
};

## – loading:
## . .\Temp\Show-PSDemo_Function.ps1
## Show-PSdemo -FileLocation C:\temp\PowerShell_SQLdata.ps1
[/sourcecode]

It has one parameter “-FileLocation” which is you full folder and file location.  The file extension doesn’t matter as long is a text file with PowerShell code in it.

It allows to:

1. The use of Comments lines.

2. The use of the “$_” in a “Select-Object“.

3. Allows the use of the “`” tick which identify a line continuation.

4. A “Pause” is included after executing each line or block of code.

Simple to load as a function, then execute:

PS C:\> .  .\YourScriptFolder\Show-PSDemo_function.ps1

PS C:\> Show-PSDemo  -FileLocation C:\YourScriptFolder\MyDemoScript.ps1

It works in both PowerShell Console and PowerShell ISE editor.

Enjoy!!