PowerShell 3.0: How to get Office 365 Service Health alerts in email? (from RSS feed)

Microsoft has awesome Office 365 Admin app on iPhone, Android and Windows phones. But I came across some old school IT guys wants to see Office 365 cloud service alerts in emails. So I wrote a PowerShell script with Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet. Feel free to reuse this script to your needs.

Before you start using this script, you need two things. Office 365 Service Health RSS URI for your organization and a SMTP server to send emails out.

To get the Office 365 Service Health RSS URI:

1. You need to log in to Office 365 with administrator account.
2. Expand and Go to Service Health/Service Health Page.
3. click on RSS icon on top right (see picture below).

 

 

 

4. Copy the whole RSS address URI from the Address bar, and keep it in a notepad

 

Now here is my script. Copy and paste the RSS URI into the script to replace Value for the variable $URI. Change the From/To/SMTP server address in the script. Save the script and schedule it to run every day (or hour, etc.,).

Your download this script from here: Office365Monitor.ps1

<#
Function: Send-Email
Parameters: FromAddress,ToAddress, Subject, Body,
Attachment (array of files)
Purpose: Send email to specified email address
with given subject, body and attachments

Written by: Anand, the awesome, Venkatachalapathy
#>
Function Send-Email()
{
Param (
$fromaddress = “donotreply@company.com”,
$toaddress = “AwesomeAnand@company.com”,

$Subject = “Action Required”,
$body,
$HTMLBody = $false,
$attachment = @(),
$smtpserver = “screeming-smtp.company.com”
)

$message = new-object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$message.From = $fromaddress

if ($toaddress.Length -gt 0)
{ $message.To.Add($toaddress) }

$message.IsBodyHtml = $HTMLBody
$message.Subject = $Subject

$attachment.foreach( {
$attach = new-object Net.Mail.Attachment($_)
$message.Attachments.Add($attach)
} )

$message.body = $body
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpserver)
$smtp.Send($message)
}
# End of Send-Email Funcation

<#
* * * * The Script Starts here * * * *
Script: Office365Monitor.ps1
Purpose: Get Office 365 Service health alerts in
email (from RSS feed)

Usage: Find out your RSS alert URI by
1. logging in to your Office 365 portal
as administrator,
2. go to “Service Health”section,
3. click on RSS icon on top right,
4. Copy and paste the address (URI) to
this script below for value for $URL variable

Don’t forget to change the from/to/smtp server
addresses in this script.

Written by: Anand, the Awesome, Venkatachalapathy
Written Date: Jan 2015
#>

#URI from Office 365 service health RSS section
$URI = “http://rss.servicehealth.microsoftonline.com/feed/en-US/..”

#Get the REST representation resource from Office 365 RSS URI
$O365Status = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URI

$Alerts = “”

#Collect all degraded service information
foreach($Status in $O365Status)
{

if ($Status.Description -like ‘*degradation*’)
{

$Alerts += $Status.pubDate + “`n” + $Status.title + “`n” + `
$Status.description + “`n” + $Status.link + “`n`n”

}
}

#send email
if ( $ExchAlerts.Length -gt 10)
{
Send-Email -fromaddress “Office365ServiceMonitor@company.com” `
-toaddress “awesomeanand@gmail.com” `
-Subject “Office 365 Service is degraded” `
-body $Alerts -HTMLBody:$true `
-smtpserver “ScreemingSMTP.company.com”
}

<#
* * * * The Script Ends Here * * * *
#>