Create log File for my Script

Question

i need two things for my powershell script
1-show successful message if script run successfully
2- if script run with error write error in log file
Please Guide me
$Folders1 = "C:\inetpub\temp\YYY"
cd $Folders1
md $Folders1\Change
Copy-Item * Change -recurse -Force -Exclude Change
md $Folders1\Change\IPC
Move-Item Change\ZZZ Change\ZZZ
xcopy ZZZ Change\IPC\ZZZ /s /i
xcopy OrgFundamental Change\IPC\OrgFundamental /s /i
xcopy Card Change\Card-ib /s /i
$Folders2 = Get-ChildItem $Folders1\Change
foreach($f in $Folders2)
if ($f.name -notlike "IPC" -and $f.name -notlike "CardScheduler" -and $f.name -notlike "Scheduler")
md Change\$f\bin
Move-Item Change\$f\*.dll Change\$f\bin
Get-ChildItem -Path Change\$f "*.exe.config" | Rename-Item -NewName web.config

Answer 1

This is sort of separate from error handling, but when it comes to logging what happens in my scripts, I have two approaches. If the system is running PowerShell 3.0 or later, and I don't care about console output (say, if the script is running as a scheduled
task, and no one will be looking at it interactively anyway), then sometimes I'll run the script like this:
PowerShell.exe -NoProfile -File 'c:\path\to\myScript.ps1' *> 'c:\Logs\someLogFile.txt'
The *> operator (introduced in PowerShell 3.0) redirects the Output, Error, Warning, Verbose and Debug streams, in this case, redirecting them all to a file.
More frequently, though, I use the
PowerShellLogging module.  This has a few advantages over the redirection operator:
It works with PowerShell 2.0.
Output can be displayed both on-screen and sent to a log file, with minimal modification to the script code.
You can easily control which streams go to which files in any combination you like.
You can control the content of what gets sent to the log file.  When using the stock Enable-LogFile cmdlet, you automatically get date and timestamps prepended to each non-blank line in the file.
Using this module in a script only requires two lines of code (and possibly only one, if you're running PowerShell 3.0 or later with module auto-loading enabled):
Import-Module PowerShellLogging
$logFile = Enable-LogFile -Path 'c:\Logs\someLogFile.txt'
It's also a good idea (but not strictly required) to pass your $logFile object to Disable-LogFile when your script finishes, so no other console output bleeds into your log file before the garbage collector comes along and stops that from happening.