Question

I would like to email a list of AD users as a CSV but I don’t want to have to save the CSV to disk before I email it.

Here is the code that gets me the data:

get-aduser -filter * -properties Telephonenumber |
where Telephonenumber -ne $Null | 
select givenname, surname, telephonenumber | 
sort surname

Now I want to add on something like:

| Export-Csv | 
Send-MailMessage -From [e-mail] -to [e-mail] -subject "Outlook address book export" -SmtpServer EdgeTransport

Is there anyway to add the CSV data as an attachment in memory without saving the file to the file system?

Answer 1

The -Attachments parameter for Send-MailMessage requires an array of paths, so you must write a file to disk somewhere.

To send your CSV data as the body of the email, use convertto-csv -notypeinformation instead of export-csv.

$myData = get-aduser -filter * -properties Telephonenumber | where Telephonenumber -ne $Null | select givenname, surname, telephonenumber | sort surname|convertto-csv -notypeinformation
Send-MailMessage -From [e-mail] -to [e-mail] -subject "Outlook address book export" -SmtpServer EdgeTransport -body $mydata