I need help with a script to pull information from AD

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I found a script that is suppost to login and logout information.  I need to find login and logout information about a user and the event logs don't go back that far.  I would think that AD would have that information.  Here is the script that I have.  I am useing Server 2008 R2 SP1.  I would like some help to figure this out.  I know that the computer is wrong but, I don't know have to intergrate the user.  I will be using the SAMname.  The information is from a month back.  I am not sure how long AD keeps that information.
 

$UserProperty = @{n="User";e={(New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier
 $_.ReplacementStrings[1]).Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount])}}
 $TypeProperty = @{n="Action";e={if($_.EventID -eq 7001) {"Logon"} else {"Logoff"}}}
 $TimeProeprty = @{n="Time";e={$_.TimeGenerated}}
 Get-EventLog System -Source Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon -ComputerName $Computer name goes here | select $UserProperty,$TypeProperty,$TimeProeprty
 

Thanks for your help.
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mo_patel

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download AD info free Edition it has pre built scripts to do this for u automatically...

saves u time writing your own....

www.cjwdev.co.uk
FAC_IT

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That looks like a nice product but, I need the login history of a user.
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If you haven't documented it with your logon script or have not been scrapping the eventlogs then you won't be able to go back and view the history. I know for us, the event logs on our domain controllers hold logs for around 1-2 minutes before rolling over. We use software to grab the logs and record them into a SQL database. We also have logon and logoff scripts which write back to other databases recording when users are logging on and off.

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