Hyper-V-Backup

This script will create a full backup of virtual machines, complete with configuration, snapshots/checkpoints, and VHD files.
This script should be run on a Hyper-V host and the Hyper-V PowerShell management modules should be installed.

To send a log file via e-mail using ssl and an SMTP password you must generate an encrypted password file.
The password file is unique to both the user and machine.
To create the password file run this command as the user and on the machine that will use the file:

$creds = Get-Credential
$creds.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content C:\scripts\ps-script-pwd.txt