Today I'm gonna share a new tip with you. It's regarding an automated way to clean logs file, either IIS log files or any other log been generated like SharePoint Logs...
There is a powershell script in Technet, but it contains an error , source link Automatically clean up old IIS logs with PowerShell
Hereunder you can find the script corrected and tested.
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PowerShell
$LogPath = "C:\inetpub\logs" $maxDaystoKeep = -30 $outputPath = "c:\CleanupTask\Cleanup_Old_logs.log" $itemsToDelete = dir $LogPath -Recurse -File *.log | Where LastWriteTime -lt ((get-date).AddDays($maxDaystoKeep)) if ($itemsToDelete.Count -gt 0){ ForEach ($item in $itemsToDelete){ "$($item.BaseName) is older than $((get-date).AddDays($maxDaystoKeep)) and will be deleted" | Add-Content $outputPath Get-item $item.PSPath | Remove-Item -Verbose } } ELSE{ "No items to be deleted today $($(Get-Date).DateTime)" | Add-Content $outputPath } Write-Output "Cleanup of log files older than $((get-date).AddDays($maxDaystoKeep)) completed..." start-sleep -Seconds 10 |
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