Sending Automated emails with powershell

James Brundage shows how in less than 25 lines of powershell code, you can create a scheduled task to email detailed reports of the installed programs on the machine. The main point here was to show that from his powerpack that he released a few weeks ago, it is simple to email reports from powershell. You can see the full article here. The code snippet that he posted is below:

New-Task |                       
   Add-TaskAction -Hidden -Script {                       
       $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"                       
       try {                       
           $messageParameters = @{                       
               Subject = "Installed Program report for $env:ComputerName.$env:USERDNSDOMAIN - $((Get-Date).ToShortDateString())"                       
               Body = Get-WmiObject Win32_Product |                        
                   Select-Object Name, Version, Vendor |            
                   Sort-Object Name |            
                   ConvertTo-Html |                        
                   Out-String                       
               From = "Me@MyCompany.com"                       
               To = "Me@MyCompany.com"                       
               SmtpServer = "SmtpHost"                       
           }                       
           Send-MailMessage @messageParameters -BodyAsHtml                       
       } catch {                       
           $_ |                        
               Out-File $env:TEMP\ProblemsSendingHotfixReport.log.txt -Append -Width 1000                       
       }                       
   } |           
   Add-TaskTrigger -Daily -At "9:00 AM" |                       
   Add-TaskTrigger -OnRegistration |                        
   Register-ScheduledTask "DailyHotfixReport"