What is wrong with my PS Script?

David Orlow 1 Reputation point
2020-12-04T17:15:57.587+00:00

Ok, for starters, can you tell me if what I'm trying to do makes any sense?
I have a request from one of our sites. They were relaying SMTP email off our Exchange server. They now have a new SMTP server and they think they've pointed every device to the new SMTP server. But, they wanted me to check to make sure they didn't miss any devices.

So, I did some research and the directories in the attached image are where I think I should find the IP addresses. I did have the script working once. To be honest, I don't know what changed to where it is throwing all the errors now. All I did was open one of the text files in one of the directories and found an IP address that I knew for sure was there, so, if my script was working correctly, it should find it, verifying the logic at least works.

But now the script is throwing errors and I'm not sure why.

I'm not sure why it's only hitting the first get-childitem and then skips to the next server in the array and only checks the first get-childitem again.

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  1. Andreas Baumgarten 97,566 Reputation points MVP
    2020-12-04T17:59:50.087+00:00

    Are there subfolders in the path of the Get-Childitem? If so maybe that is the issue because next is Get-Content and I am not sure if Get-Content is able to handle "folders".

    To get only files an not any subfolder object maybe this works (not tested!) 

    Get-ChildItem "C:\Temp\" -Attribute !Directory  -Recurse

    (If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

    Regards
    Andreas Baumgarten

  2. Rich Matheisen 45,096 Reputation points
    2020-12-05T03:06:52.343+00:00

    It's possible that you've just run out of memory on the remote machine. SMTP protocol logs can produce a lot of data! Run this on the remote machine: 

    Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB

    If the value is very low (say, 25), you can change it (replace %VALUE% with the new value): 

    Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB %VALUE% -Force

    On Windows 10 the value is 2147483647.

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  3. Yuki Sun-MSFT 40,871 Reputation points
    2020-12-08T07:06:58.037+00:00

    @David Orlow ,

    Based on my research regarding the error you shared, it also appears to me that it could be related to the MaxMemoryPerShellMB setting. Please have a go by modifying the setting to a higher value as suggested by RichMatheisen-8856, then run your PS script again and check how it goes.

    Here's a link about the error in your last image for your reference:
    The WSMan provider host process did not return a proper response
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