Send exact Powershell Output in HTML body

Question

I have a powershell script that sends an email with some windows events.

$array contains the events

$array = (Get-WinEvent -FilterXml ([xml](Get-Content C:\SendMail\EventBackup.xml))| Format-List) | out-string

and then in the body of the email, I used to type $Body=$array and my report was like:

TimeCreated  : 3/16/2015 2:12:52 AM
ProviderName : Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Id           : 14
Message      : Backup completed.

TimeCreated  : 3/16/2015 2:12:52 AM
ProviderName : Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Id           : 4
Message      : Backup finished successfully.

TimeCreated  : 3/16/2015 1:00:14 AM
ProviderName : Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Id           : 1
Message      : Backup started.

I have changed the email type to HTML, so I can customize the report, but now the body is like:

TimeCreated : 3/19/2015 2:23:00 AM ProviderName : Microsoft-Windows-Backup Id : 14 Message : Backup completed. TimeCreated : 3/19/2015 2:23:00 AM ProviderName : Microsoft-Windows-Backup Id : 4 Message : Backup finished successfully. TimeCreated : 3/19/2015 1:00:13 AM ProviderName : Microsoft-Windows-Backup Id : 1 Message : Backup started.

All in the same line.

I know it's maybe because this lines:

$emailMessage.IsBodyHtml = $true
$emailMessage.Body = @"$array "@

How can I make it look like before in HTML?

Try trading that format-list | out-string for ConvertTo-HTML -As List and see if it doesn't look better. — mjolinor
– mjolinor, Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 12:38

Loïc MICHEL · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-19 13:08:14Z

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try to convert new line to <br/>

$array=$array -replace '\n','<br/>' 
$emailMessage.Body = @"$array "@

after you comment : you can use the same technic to put, say the time created, in bold :

$array=$array -replace "(Timecreated .*?)(ProviderName)", '<strong>$1</strong>'

edited Mar 19, 2015 at 13:08

answered Mar 19, 2015 at 12:40

Loïc MICHEL

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Millz Over a year ago

Dude, i freaking Love you. Thanks a lot. Did exatly what i needed. Can i do the same comand to edit TimeCreated to bold or change color?

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