How to use PowerShell to get the last login date for a group of users

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How to use PowerShell to get the last login date for a group of users?

This is probably me just being dense, but I've tried this a number of different ways and still can't get the results.

I have a function that will return the last logon date/time for a user

PS C:\> Get-ADUserLastLogon -username Bob
Bob last logged on at: 4/1/2015 7:45:34 AM

I can get the list of SharePoint related users with the following get-aduser command:

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get-aduser -filter 'name -like "SP*" -or name -like "SharePoint*"' | get-aduser -properties * | select samaccountname

How can I pipe the results from the user list in to the last logon command to get the full last logon result list for the SharePoint users?

Posted 1-Apr-15 3:15am

littleGreenDude

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-01T04:20:00

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Something like this should work:

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Get-ADUser -filter 'name -like "SP*" -or name -like "SharePoint*"' -Properties samAccountName,lastLogonDate

EDIT: lastLogonDate, not lastLogon! The former returns a DateTime, whereas the latter returns a FILETIME[^].

Posted 1-Apr-15 4:20am

Richard Deeming

Updated 1-Apr-15 9:33am

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littleGreenDude 1-Apr-15 15:29pm

Thank you. You are so close, I'm accepting your solution. This is a case where I was making things more complicated then they need to be. lastLogon returns a column with a really large number, I'm assuming this is number of seconds since some date/time. Using lastLogonDate will provide the results in a date/time format. Again, thank you very much for the help.

Get-ADUser -filter 'name -like "SP*" -or name -like "SharePoint*"' -Properties samAccountName,lastLogonDate

Another useful tidbit for those who stumble across this... know the extended properties:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12037.active-directory-get-aduser-default-and-extended-properties.aspx

Richard Deeming 1-Apr-15 15:32pm

Sorry, I was looking at this script[^], and totally missed the DateTime::FromFileTime($time) part!

Good to hear it's working. I'll update the answer with your corrected code, in case it helps anyone else.