Simple Powershell Script to Send Email on Windows Server 2012

Sending an email from Server 2012 using Powershell is a VERY simple process.
Below is a very simple example of sending an email using a powershell script.

$message = @" Hello, I have bad news. It's not tragic, but you will have to do a small amount of work. You only have 10% of space left on your hard drive. You need to do some disk cleanup!! Thank you, Your Faithful Web Serving Machine "@ $smtpserver="smtp-server-name" $emailTo = "sample@example.com" $emailFrom = "administrator@example.com" $subject="WARNING | WWW | Low Disk Space" $msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage $msg.To.Add($emailTo) $msg.From = $emailFrom $msg.Subject = $subject $msg.Body = $message $smtp=new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) $smtp.Send($msg)

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$message = @"                           Hello, I have bad news.  It's not tragic, but you will have to do a small amount of work. You only have 10% of space left on your hard drive. You need to do some disk cleanup!! Thank you, Your Faithful Web Serving Machine "@       $smtpserver="smtp-server-name" $emailTo = "sample@example.com" $emailFrom = "administrator@example.com" $subject="WARNING | WWW | Low Disk Space" $msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage $msg.To.Add($emailTo) $msg.From = $emailFrom $msg.Subject = $subject $msg.Body = $message $smtp=new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) $smtp.Send($msg)