Export-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan

Export-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan
    -ScanResult <ScanResult>
    -FolderPath <String>
    [-Force]
    [<CommonParameters>]

The Export-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan cmdlet exports a Vulnerability Assessment scan to a file. Currently the command supports exporting a scan to Excel (.xlsx) file format only.

Module requirements: version 21+ on PowerShell 5.1; version 22+ on PowerShell 7.x.

This cmdlet was removed in v22.3+ of the module.

PS C:\> $scanResult = Invoke-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan -ServerInstance "MyComputer\MainInstance" -Database some_database
PS C:\> $scanResult | Export-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan -FolderPath "ScanResult.xlsx"

In this example, we invoke a Vulnerability Assessment scan on a database then export it to an Excel file.

PS C:\> @('localhost\SQL2016', 'localhost\SQL2017') |
  Get-SqlDatabase |
  Where-Object { $_.Name -like 'keep_*' } |
  ForEach-Object  {
    Invoke-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan -ServerInstance $_.Parent -Database $_.Name |
    Export-SqlVulnerabilityAssessmentScan -FolderPath "$($env:TEMP)\$(($_.Parent).Name -replace '\\', '_' )_$($_.Name)_ScanResult.xlsx"
  }

PS C:\> dir "$env:TEMP\*_ScanResult.xlsx"

    Directory: C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Temp

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        10/6/2018   1:19 AM          80050 SQL2016_keep_MDW_ScanResult.xlsx
-a----        10/6/2018   1:19 AM          80355 SQL2017_keep_MyDB_ScanResult.xlsx
-a----        10/6/2018   1:19 AM          79416 SQL2017_Keep_WideWorldImporters_ScanResult.xlsx

In this example, we show a simple way to quickly scan databases on a set of SQL Servers (in this case, 2 instances running on the local machine). The list of databases is filtered on the name, so only the ones whose names start with "keep_" are scanned). The results are stored under the TEMP folder in Excel files with a name that identifies the server and the databases the scan referred to.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutBuffer, -OutVariable, -PipelineVariable, -ProgressAction, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.