Issue with date modified for NTUSER.DAT

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SSUtech wrote:

Thanks for the script folks!  I have modified it to add an excluded user profiles list and based mine on the date of UserClass.dat instead of IconCache as I found some users did not have one and UserClass was the next closest I could find.

 

#Purpose: Used to set the ntuser.dat last modified date to that of the last modified date on the users UsrClass.dat file.
#This is needed because windows cumulative updates are altering the ntuser.dat last modified date which then defeats
#the ability for GPO to delete profiles based on date and USMT migrations based on date.

$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
$Report = $Null
$Path = "C:\Users"
$ExcludedUsers ="Public","zabbix_agent","svc",”user_1”,”user_2”,"default","defaultuser0","public","administrator"
$UserFolders = $Path | GCI -Directory -Exclude $ExcludedUsers

ForEach ($UserFolder in $UserFolders)
{
$UserName = $UserFolder.Name
If (Test-Path "$Path\$UserName\NTUSer.dat")
    {
    $Dat = Get-Item "$Path\$UserName\NTUSer.dat" -force
    $DatTime = $Dat.LastWriteTime
	$Db = Get-Item "$Path\$Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat" -force
	$UserClass = $Db.LastWriteTime
    $Dat.LastWriteTime = $UserClass
    Write-Host $UserName $DatTime
    Write-Host (Get-item $Path\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat -Force).LastWriteTime
    $Report = $Report + "$UserName`t$DatTime`r`n"
    $Dat = $Null
    $Db = $Null
    }
}

Future copy-pasters: Be sure to edit the quotation marks next to "user_1" and "user_2" -- looks like this awesome code snippet from SSUtech accidentally brought in the stupid kind that breaks code.

FIXED QUOTES:

#Purpose: Used to set the ntuser.dat last modified date to that of the last modified date on the users UsrClass.dat file.
#This is needed because windows cumulative updates are altering the ntuser.dat last modified date which then defeats
#the ability for GPO to delete profiles based on date and USMT migrations based on date.

$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
$Report = $Null
$Path = "C:\Users"
$ExcludedUsers ="Public","zabbix_agent","svc","user_1","user_2","default","defaultuser0","public","administrator"
$UserFolders = $Path | GCI -Directory -Exclude $ExcludedUsers

ForEach ($UserFolder in $UserFolders)
{
$UserName = $UserFolder.Name
If (Test-Path "$Path\$UserName\NTUSer.dat")
    {
    $Dat = Get-Item "$Path\$UserName\NTUSer.dat" -force
    $DatTime = $Dat.LastWriteTime
	$Db = Get-Item "$Path\$Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat" -force
	$UserClass = $Db.LastWriteTime
    $Dat.LastWriteTime = $UserClass
    Write-Host $UserName $DatTime
    Write-Host (Get-item $Path\$UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat -Force).LastWriteTime
    $Report = $Report + "$UserName`t$DatTime`r`n"
    $Dat = $Null
    $Db = $Null
    }
}