PowerShell - A Few Programming Tips

The first thing you need to do is make sure that Powershell is set to execute Powershell scripts, instead of only allowing interactive commands to be run in the Powershell environment.

set-executionpolicy RemoteSigned

To run the script from command line:

powershell -command "& c:\temp\test.ps1"

To send mail:

$SMTPClient = new-object System.Net.Mail.smtpClient

$SMTPClient.host = "localhost"

$MailMessage = new-object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

$MailMessage.From = "me@email.com"

$MailMessage.To.add("you@email.com")

$MailMessage.Subject = "Test from powershell"

$MailMessage.Body = "Text body"

$SMTPClient.Send($MailMessage)