Strange behaviour

[Me5166]

I tried this in powershell 5 and it works ok:

$days = (get-date).adddays(-90)
Get-aduser -filter {lastlogondate -lt $days} -properties name, lastlogondate

But it doesn’t work in powershell core 7.1. It fails with error:

Get-Aduser: variable: "days" found in expression: $days is not defined

What’s wrong?

[Olaf]

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@Me5166

But it doesn’t work in powershell core 7.1.

That’s not a helpful description. What exactly happens? Do you get any errors? If yes - please post them here completely - formatted as code as well.

[chrism_cologne]

@Me5166

Get-aduser -filter {lastlogondate -lt $days} -properties name, lastlogondate

$days = (get-date).adddays(-90) ; Get-aduser -filter {lastlogondate -lt $days} -properties name, lastlogondate

Works perfect on my workstaion and my DC

[Me5166]

What powershell versions are on your workstation and DC?

[chrism_cologne]

@Me5166

t it doesn’t work in powershell core 7.1. It fails w

Sorry:
Both are Powershell 7.1.3
and in WindowsPowershell 5.1.19041.610 it works, too

[Olaf]

@Olaf

What exactly happens? Do you get any errors?

??? How does it “not work” for you?

[Me5166]

It raises an error listed above in my original post in version 7.1.2. Works well in version 5.1

[Me5166]

This error

Get-Aduser: variable: "days" found in expression: $days is not defined

[Olaf]

Is this the complete code you run?

[Me5166]

Yes, it is. Variable definition and cmdlet

[Olaf]

Than I don’t have an idea. The code works for me as well with no problems.
I tested it from Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.1.3 from my local machine.

[Me5166]

Ok, i got the answer here powershell - Get-Aduser -Filter will not accept a variable - Stack Overflow.
So, this one works as supposed to me:

Get-aduser -filter "lastlogondate -lt '$days'" -properties name, lastlogondate

[Olaf]

@Me5166

Ok, i got the answer here powershell - Get-Aduser -Filter will not accept a variable - Stack Overflow.
So, this one works as supposed to me:

Very strange. As mentioned above the code works for me just as you posted it in your question.

Anyway thanks for sharing the solution.