Password Expiry Output

[Manny-Tech]

Hi,

 

I'm attempting to output the msDS-UserPasswordExpireTimeComputed attribute into a readable format.

 

So far I can achieve this by doing the below:

 

(Get-ADUser ($env:UserName) -Properties msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed).'msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed' | ForEach-Object -Process {[datetime]::FromFileTime($_)} | Out-File -encoding {ascii} (Join-Path $Env:USERPROFILE 'pwdexpiry.txt' )

 

However, it does leave a blank line at the top of the txt file which I could do without. I think the blank line is coming from the below because if I remove that part it doesn't insert a blank line at the top of the output, however the date then isn't in a reable format.

ForEach-Object -Process {[datetime]::FromFileTime($_)}

 

I'm sure it's a simple fix for someone more clued up on PowerShell than I.

 

Any help muchly appreciated.

[fordea]

It's to do with the way Powershell outputs a DateTime object (for instance if you do a Get-Date in the console notice how there is a blank line before the date is printed and then two blank lines after it. This should mimic the output you're getting in the file). If you create a string representation of the date beforehand it should work:

 

[datetime]::FromFileTime($_).ToString()

Edited January 10, 2020 by fordea

[Manny-Tech]

Fantastic! That works.

 

Now all I need to do is get this to run as a user logs in and I can then display the text with BGInfo for password expiry.