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You should be able to convert the string into date/time and then spit it back out as date/time .tostring() if you want them all formated the same way. $var = ([Convert]::ToDateTime("Monday, February 23, 2009")).tostring() $var This spits it out in the format you're looking for.

$found = @() $files = gci c:\*.*  -recurse |?{!($_.psiscontainer)} foreach ($file in $files){ if (select-string <pattern> $file -list){$found += $file} } $found Using the cmd line instead of gci is a good news, bad news, good news arrangement. The good news - it's only returning a path and filename string, so it's a lot quicker. The bad news - you don't get any other information...

Ahhh nice Vadims! Unfortunately it now breaks my script if the value is null so I'd have to test every one for Null... ugh! I guess an ugly string will have to work. Thanks guys.

Try asking this in a AD scripting group also.  I'm not an AD export, otherwise I'd try to help you out...

IIUC, author uses Get-QADUser cmdlet. Based on my tests, AccountExpires property consist of two subproperties: 1) Value with DatTime type 2) DisplayName with String type and this entry has a text like this: End of Tuesday, 2010. gada 19. january 2Keith therefore if you want to get this property as "01/08/2009 20:19:17" you may just do this: $User.AccountExpires.Value.ToString()

Hi, You can use "PsExec –s powershell MOREPARAMETER" to start PowerShell script running in System account. PsExec http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx Thanks.

Are you sure you are looking for WMI?  Your example appears to be LDAP...  Vladims's answer works great if it's really WMI. -Lincoln

I am trying to find a way to execute a PS script using domain credentials from the "Local System" context.  We are using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to deploy OS'es for servers and we have written PowerShell scripts to do the configuration on each server depending on the role.  The one problem we can't get past right now is when we have to run a process that needs access to a...

When a script completes, does it exit with an exit code of '0'?  I need to pass an exit code of 0 to the 3rd party application.

Hi i am using invoke-sqlcmd to attach a database it was working fine till yesterday but now i am getting an error "The timeout period elapsed prior to completio n of the operation or the server is not responding. At E:\Bin\Extract_Zip.ps1:65 char:14 + invoke-sqlcmd  <<<< -Query " EXEC sp_attach_db @dbname = '$Database_Name'  ,  @filename1 =...