You got to Zip it up – Compress-Archive and .Net

If you happen to work for an MSP, you will quickly become use to needing to take into consideration a lot of variables such as

• Who will be using the script
  • Non-technical Service Desk
  • Technical Service Desk
  • Desktop Engineers
  • or highly skilled users such s SOE/MOE or Server Engineers
• What Operating System
• What PowerShell version

Just because you have PowerShell, you might not be using the right version on all computers in the environment. I still have a 2003 server with PowerShell version 2 and a lots of my past customers were running 2008r2.

You may find yourself wanting to reduce the size of a file or folder, especially if you plan on pulling rather large log files from a Domain Controller in place of using a normal backup solution.

PowerShell 5.0 includes compress-archive, which is very easy to use.

Compress-Archive -Path .\source -DestinationPath .\destination.zip 

Wonderful, but remember I mentioned older operating systems and PowerShell versions. Yep, well, PowerShell v4 does not have this command however…