IIS log files are a blessing and a curse. When you are investigating something on your server, they are great. At all other times they are just eating your disk space.
What is needed is a way to bin-off the old log files to keep the disk clear.
Here is a quick VBScript file that does the job:
iisFolderPath = "E:\IIS-Logs" maxAgeInDays = 90 Wscript.Echo "Starting..." Set fileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set iisFolder = fileSystem.GetFolder(iisFolderPath) For Each currentFolders in iisFolder.SubFolders Set currentFolder = fileSystem.GetFolder(currentFolders.Path) Set currentFiles = currentFolder.Files For Each currentFile in currentFiles ageInDays = now-currentFile.DateCreated if ageInDays > (maxAgeInDays + 1) then Wscript.Echo "Deleting " & currentFile.Name fileSystem.deletefile currentFile, True end if Next Next
You can call this from the command line using the following command:
cscript.exe CleanIISLogs.vbs
You can also automate this process using Task Scheduler. For the action, enter the following information (assuming you have saved the VBScript file as “E:\IIS-Logs-Cleaner\CleanIISLogs.vbs”):
- Action: Start a program
- Program/script: C:\Windows\System32\CScript.exe
- Add arguments (optional): //Nologo //B CleanIISLogs.vbs
- Start in: E:\IIS-Logs-Cleaner
And now you’ll have just 90 days of logs, rather than all of them forever!