Get SharePoint Site Collection Created Date using PowerShell
Requirement: I had to generate a report for management review on the list of site collections created in the past month.
How to Get the Site created date using PowerShell?
To get the SharePoint Site Collection Created Date, we can use PowerShell as there is no UI to view the site creation date in SharePoint! But you can get the site creation date in SharePoint using PowerShell as:
Write-host (Get-SPSite "https://sharepointsite.com").RootWeb.created
Let’s get all sites created in the past one month based on the SharePoint site creation date using PowerShell:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Get all site collections
$SitesColl = Get-SPSite -Limit All
#Get start date of Last Last Month
$LastMonth= (Get-Date).AddMonths(-1)
#Loop through all sites
ForEach($Site in $SitesColl)
{
#Check site creation date
if($Site.RootWeb.created -gt $LastMonth)
{
$CreatedDate = $Site.RootWeb.created.toShortDateString()
Write-Host "$($Site.RootWeb.url) was created on $($CreatedDate)"
}
}
Find all Site collections created today:
Unlike the above code, let’s use a one-liner to find all site collections created today:
Get-SPSite -Limit All | ? { $_.RootWeb.Created -eq[DateTime]::Today} | select Url, @{Name="Created";Expression={$_.RootWeb.Created}}
Find the created date of a Subsite:
How to tell when a SharePoint site was created? Well, a similar code applies for finding a subsite’s created date.
Get-SPweb "https://portal.crescent.com/credit" | Select @{Name="Created";Expression={$_.Created}}
How would you edit the script to include subsites and their creation date?
Here you go: Get-SPWebApplication | Get-SPSite | Get-SPWeb -Limit All | ForEach-Object { write-host Site Name: $_.Created }
I have the exact opposite requirement. I need to find all locked sites (not a problem) and the date they were locked for a data retention policy review. I can’t find anything on the web that will give me the date a site was locked. Any ideas?
Similar requirement to achieve in SharePoint Online??
Here is my another article: SharePoint Online Get site Collection created date