PowerShell Export-CSV format

Question

I may be asking for too much. I've been tasked with writing a PowerShell script that will extract file share info. Here's an example scenario:

Start with a list of three servers. Each server has five fixed disks. Each fixed disk has ten shares. Each share ACL lists fifteen groups with various read/write permissions.

Doing the math, that's 2,250 discrete pieces of information.

My script is finished, but all it does is spit out the information into a text file, which is cumbersome to work with. Management much prefers spreadsheets that they can sort-n-filter.

But I can't figure out how to take that river of info and format it into one csv file. What should the column headers be? Each cell would be something like: "Server 1, Disk C, Share ABC, Group Marketing, Permission Read", "Server 2, Disk D, Share XYZ, Group Finance, Permission Full Control", and so on.

Answer 1

How to output this depends on what objects you're script are creating and due to the lack of a sample there's not much we can help you with other than saying that this is possible to do.

The only question I see here is

What should the column headers be?

Here's my suggestion:

Server,Disk,Share,Identity,Permission