PowerShell

A great workaround if telnet is not installed on MS server but PowerShell is available. Just open PowerShell and use the following command to test if port is accessible.

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName SERVERNAME -InformationLevel “Detailed”

The Test-NetConnection cmdlet displays diagnostic information for a connection. It supports ping test, TCP test, route tracing, and route selection diagnostics. Depending on the input parameters, the output can include the DNS lookup results, a list of IP interfaces, IPsec rules, route/source address selection results, and/or confirmation of connection establishment.

Source: Microsoft site.

This is an example that I created to open a file, manipulate the text and output to the file.

$path_in = “C:testinput.txt”

$path_out = “C:testoutput.txt”

$endMessage = “=============== END ==============”

$reader = [System.IO.File]::OpenText($path_in)
$get_time_message = “program executed on ” + [datetime]::now.ToString(‘yyyy-MM-dd / HH:mm:ss’)

try {

add-content $path_out $get_time_message
add-content $path_out “to unix: “

$long_string_to_excel =””

while($true){

$line = $reader.ReadLine()

if ($line -eq $null) { break }

# divide the input line into array – remove white space

# it is hard coded here below for the lines that consist two and three space characters

$better_line = $line.replace(‘ ‘,’ ‘)

$best_line = $better_line.replace(‘ ‘,’ ‘).split(‘ ‘)

$stringToOutput = “rm -fr ” + $best_line[8]

$long_string_to_excel = $long_string_to_excel + $best_line[8] + “`r`n”

add-content $path_out $stringToOutput

}

add-content $path_out “`n”
add-content $path_out “to excel log: ”
add-content $path_out $long_string_to_excel
add-content $path_out $endMessage

}

finally {

$reader.Close()

}

write-host “program execution:`ncompleted”

Hello,
Let me share the code that I have used to automatically sent out emails using PowerShell. You can use Windows Task Scheduler to automate its execution.

#Program to send test emails
$counter = 0;

$LogPath = “C:SendEmailsToolSend Test EmailsLog.txt”

“Program started at $(Get-Date)” | Out-File -FilePath $LogPath -Append

$emailfrom = “Richmond Times-Dispatch <no-reply@richmond.com>”

$emailTo = “email@destination.com”

$smtpserver = “internal-smtp”

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

while ($counter -le 0){

try{

$emailSubject = “Testing email #” + $counter + “”;

$body = “This is another test # ” + $counter + ” Please ignore.`r`n”

$smtp.Send($emailfrom, $emailTo, $emailSubject, $body)

$counter++;

Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1000

}

catch{
“Caught an exception:” | Out-File -FilePath $LogPath -Append
“Exception Type: $($_.Exception.GetType().FullName)” | Out-File -FilePath $LogPath -Append
“Exception Message: $($_.Exception.Message)” | Out-File -FilePath $LogPath -Append
$caughtException = $true

}

}

“Program completed at $(Get-Date) =======” | Out-File -FilePath $LogPath -Append