Output script to body of email

[pamiller21]

I am trying to output the script to the body of my email, any ideas:

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# Connect to vCenter        #

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add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Connect-VIServer 127.0.0.1 -Protocol https -User <USER> -Password <PW>

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#          Content          #

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Get-VM -Name connectwise | Get-Snapshot | Remove-Snapshot -Confirm:$false

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# E-mail HTML output #

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Send-MailMessage -To "<ADDY>" -From "<ADDY>" -SMTPServer <SRV> -Subject "Snapshots Deleted!!" -Body "The snapshots are deleted from the VMs.  Have a great day!!! :)"

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# Disconnect session from VC #

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disconnect-viserver -confirm:$false

[LucD]

What kind of output from the script do you mean?

The Remove-Snapshot cmdlet doesn't produce any output afaik.

If you have an array with results, you will have to convert it to a string to place it in the body of an email.

Like this for example

Send-MailMessage -To "<ADDY>" -From "<ADDY>" -SMTPServer <SRV> -Subject "Snapshots Deleted!!" -Body ($report | Out-String)

[pamiller21]

What I would love is for it to at the least spit out the name of the VM that it deleted snapshots from. Is that at all possible?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Try like this.
Note that I use splatting for the Send-MailMessage cmdlet parameters.

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot -OutVariable report | Remove-Snapshot -Confirm:$false

$sMail = @{

  From = 'lucd@lucd.info'

  To = 'lucd@lucd.info'

  Subject = 'Snapshots deleted'

  Body = $report.VM.Name | Out-String

  SmtpServer = 'mail.lucd.info'

}

Send-MailMessage @sMail