Powershell - Simple Logging

A very simple yet useful way of dumping messages to a log file during the running of your powershell scripts is by using the following code snippet:-

$date = get-date -uformat %d/%m/%y" "%H:%M:%S
$date + " Creating OU: " + $ouname>>C:\Install\Logs\ModularADInstall.log

This code will basically log a message to file that begins with the date and time and then "Creating OU: followed by the vaule of the variable $ouname, the line in the log file could look something like this:-

18/08/08 13:15:40 Creating OU: OU1

If you want to change the date format then you can change this on the first line.