Especially for administrators who work in a network with an AD structure (Active Direcotry) it may be desirable if they can query the last login date or the last login time relatively quickly and easily . By default this is not so easy, but the PowerShell brings with it the command
Get-ADUser
the right tool with. In order to access the user’s LastLogon data, you first have to call up a PowerShell console. It is important that this PowerShell Console is run as an administrator , otherwise the following queries will fail.
Then the Active Directory Module must first be loaded into the PowerShell console so that you can also use the Active Directory commands in the PowerShell session. This is done with the command
ActiveDirectory import modules
The module is loaded within seconds. We have shown you the entire process from loading the AD module to querying the “last login data” using an example below.
After importing the AD module you can now issue the following command.
Get-ADUser “USERNAME” properties LastLogonDate | FT -Property Name, LastLogonDate -A
As you can see in the example above, this gives you the ” LastLogonDate ” and also the time. For the placeholder ” USERNAME ” you must of course enter the user name that should be queried. The domain name does not necessarily have to be specified in the query.
In the second example we asked for a username that had never logged in, so no result is output.
For example, if you want to have all users with logon data that begin with a special first name, then the command is as follows.
Get-ADUser -Filter {GivenName -eq “Peter”} -Properties LastLogonDate | FT -Property Name, LastLogonDate -A
You can of course do the same with the last name, then you just have to exchange the file name ” GivenName ” for ” Surname “.
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