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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???

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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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  • +1 - out-string is a good trick; that's going in my bag of tricks. Commented May 29, 2009 at 13:38
  • out-string is the answer. You can't really use format-table if you're assigning...it's really meant for output to the console. Commented May 29, 2009 at 14:36
  • works like a charm :) Commented May 29, 2009 at 18:41
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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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  • nope. ain't working, all i get in my email now it's System.Object[] Commented May 29, 2009 at 18:38
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You could possibly adapt from my post in this thread.

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  • i will try, but i haven't been able to email the contents of a variable like $body = Get-WmiObject WIN32_logicaldisk i assume there's someting i am missing, but i must mention i have just started using powershell last week Commented May 29, 2009 at 10:07
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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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