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Remove files based on age in days and email success message in Powershell

I have to cleanup a server share daily. The following powershell script will remove old files and email a note to me telling me it ran.

#
# setup variables 
#
$ageInDays = 7
$fileShare = <span class="str">&quot;serversharesubfolder&quot;</span>
#
# cleanout $fileShare and leave
#
$ageInDays worth of recent files
#
Get-ChildItem $fileShare -Recurse | <span class="kwrd">where</span> {$_.LastWriteTime -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-$ageInDays)} | Remove-Item -recurse
#
# setup to mail the results 
#
$SmtpClient = <span class="kwrd">new</span>-<span class="kwrd">object</span> system.net.mail.smtpClient
$SmtpServer = <span class="str">&quot;smtp.domain.com&quot;</span>$SmtpClient.host = $SmtpServer 
$From = <span class="kwrd">new</span>-<span class="kwrd">object</span> System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(<span class="str">&quot;scheduledtask@domain.com&quot;</span>, <span class="str">&quot;Schedule Task&quot;</span>)
$To = <span class="str">&quot;me@domain.com&quot;</span>
$Title = <span class="str">&quot;Snapshot cleanup run&quot;</span>
$Body = <span class="str">&quot;The powershell snapshot cleanup of $fileShare successfully ran.
   This left $ageInDays days of snapshots. Script location is &#039;serversharecleanup_snapshots.ps1&#039;&quot;</span> 
#
# mail the results 
#
$SmtpClient.Send($from,$to,$title,$Body)

# setup variables

$ageInDays = 7

$fileShare = "serversharesubfolder"

# cleanout $fileShare and leave

$ageInDays worth of recent files

Get-ChildItem $fileShare -Recurse | where {$_.LastWriteTime -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-$ageInDays)} | Remove-Item -recurse

# setup to mail the results

$SmtpClient = new-object system.net.mail.smtpClient

$SmtpServer = "smtp.domain.com"$SmtpClient.host = $SmtpServer

$From = new-object System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("scheduledtask@domain.com", "Schedule Task")

$To = "me@domain.com"

$Title = "Snapshot cleanup run"

$Body = "The powershell snapshot cleanup of $fileShare successfully ran.

This left $ageInDays days of snapshots. Script location is 'serversharecleanup_snapshots.ps1'"

# mail the results

$SmtpClient.Send($from,$to,$title,$Body)

I need to get it to mail on failure, but I’ve not gotten that far.

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