Retrieving user accounts created today, but without the time

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Hello and thank you to all who take the time to look at my post and offer assistance!

Currently I am trying to make a script that returns enabled users who were created today or whenever the present day is when it is run, but without the time factored into the date. Right now if I try to run the below it doesn’t return anything. I’ve tried many of the comparison operators but it still doesn’t work.

Get-ADUser -Filter "enabled -eq 'true'" -Properties name, whencreated | 
    where {$_.whencreated -like (get-date)}

Now if I instead try to find users created in the last two days as an example I can do that, but it is always taking the time into account which is what I want to ignore. I simply want it to find users created on 12/29/21 and not worry about a timestamp at all, just find anyone created on that day at ANY time.

I’ve done a lot of googling and trial and error but am having no such luck. Hopefully my post makes sense and thank you again to any who offer help!

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To get only the “Date” part from the current day you can use

(Get-Date).Date

To make the reference and the AD property comparable you have to do this for both. So it looks something like this:

Get-ADUser -Filter "Enabled -eq '$true'" -Properties WhenCreated | 
    Where-Object {(Get-Date $($_.whencreated)).Date -eq  (Get-Date).Date}

BTW: The comparison operator -like is not a good choice when it comes to date and time comparisons. Instead you should use -eq or -lt or -gt or -le or -ge.

So your query could also be written like this:

Get-ADUser -Filter "Enabled -eq '$true'" -Properties WhenCreated | 
    Where-Object {$_.whencreated -ge  (Get-Date).Date}
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Olaf, FWIW, your solution work perfectly for me.