It is necessary to purge IIS logs, as accumulating an average of 200 MB per day can quickly saturate the C drive.
Simply create a task to purge IIS logs.
The PowerShell Script
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | $LogPath = "C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1"$maxDaystoKeep = -45$outputPath = "C:\windows\temp\Purge_log_iis.log"$itemsToDelete = dir $LogPath -File *.log | Where LastWriteTime -lt ((get-date).AddDays($maxDaystoKeep))$itemsToDelete.VersionInfo.FileNameif ($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.VersionInfo.FileName | 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 |
