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user2785434
user2785434

Reputation: 53

powershell output results from a script to log file

I have a simple bit of Powershell code which pings servers if they are up and then disables the local admin account. How can I output the results to a log file so that I have record of what I have disabled.

This is what I have so far 

$computers = Get-ADComputer -filter {OperatingSystem -like "Windows Server*"} | 
ForEach ($computer in $computers) {     
   $rtn = Test-Connection -CN $computer -Count 1 -BufferSize 16 -Quiet    
  IF($rtn -match 'True') {
    write-host -ForegroundColor green $computer | Disable-localUserAccount -ComputerName $computer -username Administrator
  } ELSE {
      Write-host -ForegroundColor red $computer
  }     
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 74760

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200493

Write-Host writes directly to the console. That output cannot be redirected to a file. Replace it Write-Output and drop the fancy coloring if you want to redirect the output to a file. Also, I'd pipe the computer list into a ForEach-Object loop, so you can directly write the output to a file. And Test-Connection returns a boolean value, so you can use it directly in the conditional:

$computers | % {
  if (Test-Connection -CN $_ -Count 1 -BufferSize 16 -Quiet) {
    Write-Output "$_ online"
    Disable-localUserAccount -ComputerName $_ -username Administrator
  } else {
    Write-Output "$_ offline"
  }     
} | Out-File 'C:\path\to\your.log'

Upvotes: 7

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