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s.mihai
Asked: 2009-05-30 01:33:21 +0800 CST

Powershell - email free space information

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i am currently using:

$emailFrom = "[email protected]"
$emailTo = "[email protected]"
$subject = "subject"
$body = "message"
$smtpServer = "mail.host.com"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)

and i know that with the folowing command i can find out the free space on all of my hdd:

Get-WmiObject WIN32_logicaldisk | sort -desc freespace | select -first 3 | format-table -autosize deviceid,devicetype,providername,freespace,size,volumename;

when i try to do this:

$body = Get-WmiObject WIN32_logicaldisk | sort -desc freespace | select -first 3 | format-table -autosize deviceid,devicetype,providername,freespace,size,volumename;

but all i get in my email is the folowing:

    Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatStartData Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.GroupStartData Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData 
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEntryData Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.GroupEndData Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.FormatEndData

how can i get my free space via email using powershell???

windows email powershell

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try:

    $body = Get-WmiObject WIN32_logicaldisk | sort -desc freespace | select -first 3 | format-table -autosize deviceid,devicetype,providername,freespace,size,volumename | out-string

    I've just tried it on my PC and it worked.

    For some background on why this works see:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/04/25/how-does-select-string-work-with-pipelines-of-objects.aspx

    JR

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  2. You can try this:

    $body_array = Get-WmiObject WIN32_logicaldisk | sort -desc freespace | select -first 3 | format-table -autosize deviceid,devicetype,providername,freespace,size,volumename;
$body = $body_array.ToString();
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  3. You could possibly adapt from my post in this thread.

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  4. PowerShell is taking a stream of objects from Get-WMIObject, sorting and selecting a subset, then producing a text rendition of the remaining objects-- not just working with pure text. If you want to get a pure text rendition, you can just change your call to format-table to use select-object instead.

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