{"id":275,"date":"2014-11-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/27\/powertip-use-powershell-to-work-with-active-directory-date-fields\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:53","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-work-with-active-directory-date-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-work-with-active-directory-date-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Work with Active Directory Date Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\"><\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Summary<\/strong>:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to work with Active Directory date fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I Use Windows PowerShell to work with date fields in Active Directory?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Try the following techniques:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\"># Password last set within the last 30 days?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\">$pwdLastSet = Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties pwdLastSet |<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Select-Object -ExpandProperty pwdLastSet<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\"># Option A<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\">$pwdLastSet -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30).ToFileTimeUTC()<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\"># Option B<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:90px\">[datetime]::fromFileTimeUTC($pwdLastSet) -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to work with Active Directory date fields. &nbsp;How can I Use Windows PowerShell to work with date fields in Active Directory? &nbsp;Try the following techniques: # Password last set within the last 30 days? $pwdLastSet = Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties pwdLastSet | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Select-Object -ExpandProperty pwdLastSet # Option A $pwdLastSet -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30).ToFileTimeUTC() # [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,313,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-active-directory","tag-ashley-mcglone","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to work with Active Directory date fields. &nbsp;How can I Use Windows PowerShell to work with date fields in Active Directory? &nbsp;Try the following techniques: # Password last set within the last 30 days? $pwdLastSet = Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties pwdLastSet | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Select-Object -ExpandProperty pwdLastSet # Option A $pwdLastSet -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30).ToFileTimeUTC() # [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}