Array causing 'system.outofmemoryexception'-CodePudding

I am running the below script and it is causing exception of type 'system.outofmemoryexception' was thrown

I believe that it is due to the @Results array growing past the 2gb allocated to windows shell. Is there possibly a way to iterate through the results, or am I stuck with allocating more memory (which could ultimately be a lot...)?

$Path = "path to output" 

### Get all PF
$publicFolders = Get-PublicFolder "Public Folder Name" -Recurse -resultsize unlimited | Select-Object *


### Array to contain results
$results = @()

###Begin looping through each PF and grab each user/group with AccessRights to that folder
$final = ForEach($pf in $publicFolders){    
    $perms     = Get-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity $pf.Identity | Where-Object {$_.User -notmatch "Default|Anonymous|S-X-X-XX"} 
    
    Foreach($perm in $perms){
        $temp = [PSCustomObject]@{
                    MailFolderName = $pf.Identity 
                    UserWithPerms  = $perm.User
                    AccessRights   = $perm | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AccessRights

                }
                $results  = $temp
    }
                   
}

$final | Export-Csv $path -NoTypeInformation

Am I barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

Use the ForEach-Object cmdlet instead of a foreach(){} loop statement for the outer loop - this way you can start piping the output to Export-Csv immediately instead of buffering it in an array:

$publicFolders |ForEach-Object {
    $pf    = $_
    $perms = Get-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity $pf.Identity | Where-Object {$_.User -notmatch "Default|Anonymous|S-X-X-XX"} 
    
    Foreach($perm in $perms){
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            MailFolderName = $pf.Identity 
            UserWithPerms  = $perm.User
            AccessRights   = $perm | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AccessRights
        }
    }                   
} | Export-Csv $path -NoTypeInformation

Alternatively, flush the partial set of results to file after enumerating the permissions for each folder:

ForEach($pf in $publicFolders){    
    $perms     = Get-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity $pf.Identity | Where-Object {$_.User -notmatch "Default|Anonymous|S-X-X-XX"} 
    
    $results = Foreach($perm in $perms){
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            MailFolderName = $pf.Identity 
            UserWithPerms  = $perm.User
            AccessRights   = $perm | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AccessRights
        }
    }

    # flush the buffer before moving to the next set of permissions
    $results |Export-Csv $path -NoTypeInformation -Append
}