Receiving an automatic notification from Windows Server when disk space is low

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Does Windows Server 2012 R2 have any such functionality built-in to enable monitoring of disk space?
We have an old VB Script file that sends me an email when disk space gets low.
Also, the following post discusses the topic regarding Windows Server 2008:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/c9878861-6ba5-4d3b-b6b0-6e4b33c41853/notification-when-low-disk-space?forum=windowsserver2008r2management
I was wondering if there was any change regarding this in
Windows Server 2012 R2 .
Many thanks.<o:p></o:p>
Keith<o:p></o:p>
R K Howard

Hi,
Windows Server 2012 stays the same on that topic, you still need some kind of monitoring on your disk space.
If you don't have a monitoring solution, like for example SCOM, you can for example with powershell do what you earlier did in VB script. Either you have a scheduled task that runs as often as you'd like, or you can utilize something called WMI eventing
to trigger on an event 'disk low' but thats a bit more complicated.
See below examples on some example scripts that you could use.
https://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/powershell/disk-space-monitoring-and-early-warning-with-powershell/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730927.aspx
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/6e935887-6b30-4654-b977-6f5d289f3a63Hope
this helps you!
//Johan
Microsoft Certified Trainer
MCSE: Desktop, Server, Private Cloud, Messaging
Blog: http://365lab.net

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