How to create a power shell job to send out an email

By Charles McDowell

Comptia Certified Linux Networking Professional.

Cisco Certified Networking Technician.

Microsoft Technology Associate Database Administration

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— John Carmack

First we create a ps1 script to send the email.

Example:

## Email configuration
$to = "insert email address”
$smtp = "mail.example.com"
$from = " insert email address " 
$subject = "Today was a great Day!"  
$body = "Hello All, <br>" 
$body += "Today was a great day!." 

# Send email.
 send-MailMessage -SmtpServer $smtp -To $to -From $from -Subject $subject -Body $body -BodyAsHtml -Priority high 

Then create a job on task scheduler to run the script at an appointed time.