Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell
- by BuckWoody
I've been toying around with a script to create a special set of calendar objects in Outlook that show when my SQL Server Agent Jobs are scheduled to run. I haven't finished yet, but I thought I would share the part that creates the Outlook Appointments.I have yet to fill a variable with the start and end times, and then loop through that to create the appointments. I'm thinking I'll make the script below into a function, and feed it those variables in a loop. The script below creates a whole new Calendar Folder in Outlook called "SQL Server Agent Jobs". I also use categories quite a bit, so you'll see that too.
Caution: If you plan to play with this script, do it on an isolated workstation, not on your "regular" Outlook calendar. Otherwise, you'll have lots of appointments in there that you don't care about!
# Add a new calendar item to a new Outlook folder called "SQL Server Agent Jobs"
$outlook = new-object -com Outlook.Application
$calendar = $outlook.Session.folders.Item(1).Folders.Item("SQL Server Agent Jobs")
$appt = $calendar.Items.Add(1) # == olAppointmentItem
$appt.Start = [datetime]"03/11/2010 11:00"
$appt.End = [datetime]"03/11/2009 12:00"
$appt.Subject = "JobName"
$appt.Location = "ServerName"
$appt.Body = "Job Details"
$appt.Categories = "SQL server Agent Job"
$appt.Save()
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