Automatically clean up old IIS logs with PowerShell

Hi

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.

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

I deployed this as a Scheduled Task and it’s running wonderfully. Enjoy!