Everyday Powershell - Part 31 - Send email with multiple attachments

So back in Part 24 reader sivaramsharma asked if send-mailmessage could handle multiple attachments so we threw together this post...

$files = get-childitem C:\reports | where name -like "*.png" $body = @() $attachments = @() foreach($file in $files){     $filename = [system.io.path]::GetFileName($file.FullName)     $attachments += $file.fullname     $body += "TEST <br /><img src='" + $filename + "'/>TEST <br />" } $body = $body | Out-String Send-MailMessage -to someuser@someserver.com -From someotheruser@someserver.com -SmtpServer somemailserver -Subject "Test" -BodyAsHtml $body -Attachments $attachments

It's a neat little example of generating some HTML in a loop then sending it off using send-mailmessage.

Everyday Powershell - Part 30 - Beware of reinventing the wheel

Hmmm bit of a funny one today... So I spent a few minutes writing this;

function get-recursegroupmembers{     [CmdletBinding()]     param     (         [Parameter(mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$True,ValueFromPipelinebyPropertyName=$True)]         [string]$groupname     )     $users = @()     $groups = get-adgroupmember $groupname     foreach($object in $groups){         if ($object.objectclass -eq "group"){             get-recursegroupmembers $object         }         if ($object.objectclass -eq "user"){             $users += $object         }     }     $users }

When I realised that this would do just fine;

get-adgroupmember $group -Recursive

So yeah, lesson for the day is don't spend valuable time writing stuff when the problem has already been solved.