Logging Function

While I made this function a few times on demand with different purposes, I gathered a nice clean script somewhere (not sure where I found it) to start logging to a file.
I added the date/time stamp together with a write-host command to get the logging also on screen. This is a script I know always copy in my scripts to get a fast and simple logging function

 

#Variable to set the logfile location
$Logfile = "D:\LogFile.txt"

Function LogWrite{
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Simple function to write to a appending logfile with date and time stamp

.PARAMETER  $LogString
Input parameter which holds the data which goes to the $logfile

.PARAMETER  $Logfile
Parameter which contains the location of the logfile the information is written to

.EXAMPLE
LogWrite "Starting with $StrTitle files"
LogWrite "Found $StrTitle files with an amount of $TotalSize MB."

.NOTES
Version:        1.0
Creation Date:  26-08-2014
Purpose/Change: PRD
#>
Param ([string]$logstring)
Add-content $Logfile -value (((Get-Date).ToString()) + " " + $logstring)
Write-Host (((Get-Date).ToString()) + " " + $logstring)
}

Exection is as simple as :

logwrite "This line is being sent to screen and text file while a date & time stamp is added"

Powershell shows:

PowerCLI C:\> logwrite "This line is being sent to screen and text file while a date & time stamp is added"
30-8-2014 10:05:52 This line is being sent to screen and text file while a date & time stamp is added

And the text file:

30-8-2014 10:05:52 This line is being sent to screen and text file while a date & time stamp is added

Hopefully it can help someone just copy/paste and adjust where needed:)