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Tag Archives: date
PowerShell function to convert WMI Event Log date and time to datetime data type
PowerShell likes to hold dates and times as the DateTime data type. This enables you to do useful things with it such as maths, easily pick out bits of it (e.g. just the date ignoring the time, just the hour, … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell
Tagged convert, date, datetime, daylight saving, get-wmiobject, parseexact, powershell, time, time zone, wmi
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PowerShell: Get downtime between a range of dates/times
This is an enhancement of my previous script which found the duration of the most recent downtime of a Windows machine. As with that script, by “downtime” I mean the time between the machine shutting down (cleanly or unexpectedly) and … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, Windows
Tagged array, date, downtime, from, get-winevent, powershell, range, time, to, total, unexpected, windows
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Get VMware VM creation date (kind of)
VMware vSphere doesn’t seem to keep the VM creation date in its database anywhere, but if your VMs are all/mostly running Windows (and you have permission to do a WMI query against them) you can get the OS install date, … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell, vSphere, Windows
Tagged creation, date, growth, powercli, powershell, vm, vmware, vsphere, windows, wmi
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