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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Last login date report

Periodic housekeeping in AD is required for integrity. There may be user objects that have not been used for years. If we can create a report along with the last login dates, we can use it as a reference to clean up objects:

## Script For Filter user with Last logon Time ## 
$htmlformat = "<style>BODY{background-color:LightBlue;}</style>" 
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties "LastLogonDate" | sort-object -property lastlogondate -descending | Select-Object Name,LastLogonDate | ConvertTo-HTML -head $htmlformat -body "<H2>AD Accounts Last Login Date</H2>"| Out-File C:\lastlogon.html 
Invoke-Expression C:\lastlogon.html

This script creates an HTML report that includes all the user accounts with their last login date timestamps:

Figure 17.4: Last login date HTML report

Some of the accounts in the above reports don't show the last login date value. It means no one has logged into those accounts...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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