Task Scheduler - Send an email

[mitchell1981]

I've just discovered that the ability to send an email based on an event, or a task has been deprecated. I've always found this quite useful for spotting when backups fail, or when syncs have happened etc..

 

A quick google search does not give any reason why Microsoft have decided to drop this functionality, nor can I find if there is now an alternative recommended way of getting a notification based on a event.

 

Anyone found a way? I'm guessing it may be too early to ask a question like this!

[electro_wc]

Here's a quick little powershell script that does it for me. I set up event viewer to run it on the administrative events filter.

#Get the app log minus the annoying warnings from MSCVCR that occur because I don't own my domain/tree.

#Only grab the previous 2 minutes - this could probably be shortened.

$logapp = get-eventlog -LogName Application -after ([DateTime]::Now.AddMinutes(-2)) -EntryType Warning,Error | where-object {$_.EventID -ne 12339 -and $_.EventID -ne 12344} | fl | out-string

 

#Get the system log -- only warnings & errors

$logsys = get-eventlog -LogName System -after ([DateTime]::Now.AddMinutes(-2)) -EntryType Warning,Error | fl | out-string

 

#Grab the hardware log (everything)

$loghrd = get-eventlog -LogName HardwareEvents -after ([DateTime]::Now.AddMinutes(-2)) | fl | out-string

 

#Setup a string to go out in the email

$x = @"

Applog $logapp

Syslog $logsys

Hardware $loghrd

"@

 

$smtpServer = "smtp.mydomain.edu"

$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage

$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SMTPClient($smtpServer)

$msg.From = "[email protected]"

$msg.To.Add("[email protected]")

$msg.subject = "MyMachine Syslog"

$msg.body = $x $smtp.Send($msg)

 

 

 

I've just discovered that the ability to send an email based on an event, or a task has been deprecated. I've always found this quite useful for spotting when backups fail, or when syncs have happened etc.. A quick google search does not give any reason why Microsoft have decided to drop this functionality, nor can I find if there is now an alternative recommended way of getting a notification based on a event. Anyone found a way? I'm guessing it may be too early to ask a question like this!

Edited September 24, 2012 by electro_wc