Powershell: Automated Weekly Status Reports
This is a pretty simple Powershell script that generates a random weekly status report and emails it. I wrote this script because it is important that I produce a weekly status report at my place of employment. The report is graded based on if it was submitted at all and secondly if it was submitted on time. As far as I know nobody actually reads these silly things as the process of checking them is automated. So if the “checker” is automated why shouldn’t the “reporter” be automated? The script is executed via a Scheduled Task.
Here is the script.
#
# Cobbled together by Don
#
# Lazy weekly reports
#
# Set the possible weekly activities
$wrkItems = @("Activity 1",
"Activity 2",
"Activity 3",
"Activity 4",
"Activity 5",
"Activity 6",
"Activity 7",
"Activity 8",
"Activity 9",
"Activity 10",
"Activity 11",
"Activity 12"
)
# Create the email body using three random elements
$outData = "My activities for the week may include but are not limited to:`n`n"
foreach ($ele in get-random -input 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 -count 3) {
$outData += " - "
$outData += $wrkItems[$ele]
$outData += "`n"
}
# Email the weekly report to the appropriate email address
$SMTPserver = "mail.yours.com"
$from = "don@nowhere.com"
$to = "WeeklyReports@nowhere.com"
$subject = "Don's Weekly Status Report"
$emailbody = $outData
$mailer = new-object Net.Mail.SMTPclient($SMTPserver)
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage($from, $to, $subject, $emailbody)
$msg.IsBodyHTML = $false
$mailer.send($msg)
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