$fubar.baz indicates the baz property of the contents of the fubar variable.
For instance: $me = get-aduser kbuff -properties * $me.name will output the name property of $me Kurt On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Jesse Rink <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops sorry, yes, echo $BackupStatus|Select-Object -ExpandProperty > LastSuccessfulBackupTime is correct... i was typing it out by hand since my > copy/paste wasn't working. > > > Can you clarify what this does, $DeltaDays.TotalDays ? > > > > > Jesse Rink > > Source One Technology, Inc. > > HP Partner > > 262 993 2231 > > > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on > behalf of Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Re: Powershell/scripting > > > Are you certain this is the right line? > > > > echo $LastSuccessfulBackupDate|Select-Object -ExpandProperty > LastSuccessfulBackupTime > > > > This seems more likely: > > > > echo $BackupStatus|Select-Object -ExpandProperty > LastSuccessfulBackupTime > > > > If so > > > > $LastDate = $BackupStatus.LastSuccessfulBackupTime > > $DeltaDays =(Get-Now - $LastDate) > > $DeltaDays.TotalDays > > > > Of course, no error correction detection remediation there. > > > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on > behalf of Jesse Rink <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Powershell/scripting > > > > Hello. I couldn't script my way out of a paperbag so, I'm looking for help > if anyone on here is decent with Powershell/scripting. > > > I'm running the following command via a Powershell script. > > > ------ > > $DEVICE=$args[0] > $BackupStatus = Invoke-Command -Computername $DEVICE -ScriptBlock { > add-Pssnapin Windows.serverbackup -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; > Get-WBSummary } > > echo $LastSuccessfulBackupDate|Select-Object -ExpandProperty > LastSuccessfulBackupTime > > ------ > > That result yields the following, for example, "Friday, December 1st, 2015 > 9:00:38 PM" > > > How can I have Powershell take that result, and have that date Subtracted > from the Current Date, and the answer be a plain integer? > > > Something to the affect of > $DaysSinceLastSuccessfulBackup=($LastSuccessfulBackupDate-%DATE%) > > So for example, if on December 3rd, the last successful backup was December > 1st, the $DaysSinceLastSuccessfulBackup would be an integer of 2. > > > Pardon my obvious ignorance with Powershell and coding.! Is this easily > doable? > > > Thanks. > > J > > > >
