Error Handling and Logging in Powershell

When you run this script it will create a .csv file where you are running your script.

$URL = "siteurl"

$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($URL)

$web = $site.openweb("")

#logging

$timestamp = get-date -format "yyyyMMdd_hhmmtt"

$filenameStart = "Log2CSVFile"

$logfile = ("{0}{1}.csv" -f $filenamestart, $timestamp)

$header = "Head1,Head2"

$header | out-file -FilePath $logfile

try  {

           

            $list=$web.Lists["User Information List"]

            $listname = $list.title

            $msg = ("{0},{1}" -f "List:", "$listname")

            $msg | out-file -FilePath $logfile  -append

            Write-Host $list.title

      }

Catch

      {

          $msg = ( "{0},{1}" -f "Error occurred while reading list..:", $_)

            $msg | out-file -FilePath $logfile  -append

      }

     

      $i++

$web.Dispose()

$site.Dispose()