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QUESTION POSED ON: 20 November 2004
Where can I find the creation date of an object, like Users? I want to make a script where the filter is the creation date of the User. I hope you can help me.

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EXPERT RESPONSE
Here is a snippet of a VBScript:
strContainer = "users"
strName = "phinsberg"


dim strname
On Error Resume Next
'***********************************************
'* Connect to an object *
'***********************************************
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
If strContainer = "" Then
 Set objItem = GetObject("LDAP://" & _
 objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext"))
Else
 Set objItem = GetObject("LDAP://cn=" & strName & "," & strContainer & "," & _
 objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext"))
End If
'***********************************************
'* End connect to an object *
'***********************************************
WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "** General Properties Page**"
WScript.Echo "** (Single-Valued Attributes) **"
strname = objItem.Get("name")
WScript.Echo "name: " & strname

WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "** Object Properties Page**"
WScript.Echo "** (Single-Valued Attributes) **"
strwhenCreated = str(objItem.Get("whencreated"))
WScript.Echo "whenCreated: " & strwhenCreated
strwhenChanged = objItem.Get("whenChanged")
WScript.Echo "whenChanged: " & strwhenChanged
The rather odd thing is the unusual inconsistency with actually retrieving the dates at times. This script is looking for the OU=users and the object=phinsberg. You can use the same process iteratively to retrieve multiple users. Like I said though, the problem is the seemingly inconsistent behavior of retrieving the date attributes. You can view the information on a user account from the ADSIEdit MMC, but the ADSI script engine sometimes has a problem.

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