Question

The below script puts database backup details into a nicely formatted table with borders and saves as a .htm. It then emails the report, but when the report is emailed the ‘table’ has no borders and no gap between the ‘LastBackupDate’ column and the ‘LastLogBackupDate’ column – it basically looks the same as the results would on the powershell console. Can anyone tell me how to format the email so all the html is used from the file? P.s. I can’t use send-mailmessage due to issues with gmail ssl. Thanks.

#HTML 
$a = "<style>"
$a = $a + "TABLE{border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;border-collapse: collapse;}"
$a = $a + "TH{border-width: 1px;padding: 10px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"
$a = $a + "TD{border-width: 1px;padding: 10px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;}"
$a = $a + "</style>"

#Set Date
$date = ( get-date ).ToString('yyyyMMdd')

#Locate DB
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | out-null
$s = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') "LOCALHOST\SQLX64"

#Retrieves the last backup dates - for full and log backups
$dbs=$s.Databases
$backups = $dbs | SELECT Name,LastBackupDate, LastLogBackupDate | Sort-Object LastBackupDate | ConvertTo-HTML -head $a -body "<H2>DB01 Database Backup Details $date </H2>" | Out-File $("D:\SQL_Backup_Log_Script\Logs\Backup_Log_Temp.htm")

#Email Report
$EmailFrom = "[e-mail]"
$emailto = "[e-mail]"
$Subject = "Database Backup Log $date" 
$Body = Get-Content D:\SQL_Backup_Log_Script\Logs\Backup_Log_Temp.htm
$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com" 
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587) 
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true 
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("[e-mail]", "password here"); 
$message = New-Object Net.Mail.MailMessage($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)
$message.IsBodyHtml = $true;
$SMTPClient.Send($message)

#Rename file to include today's date
Rename-Item -path D:\SQL_Backup_Log_Script\Logs\Backup_Log_Temp.htm -newname ($date +"_DB01_Backup_Log.htm")

Answer 1

Try change this line (can’t test if is this the problem):

$Body = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText("D:\SQL_Backup_Log_Script\Logs\Backup_Log_Temp.htm")

the body property in Net.Mail.MailMessage accept [string], get-content return [string[]].