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Issue

When trying to change a property of type Date of a Vault File using the Update-VaultFile cmdlet, it clears the property or doesn’t correctly

Solution

To avoid this problem, define a DateTime object and write your new date as parameter.

Examples

Powershell v5 and above:

To change a date property of the file to the 5th of august 2018 and update the Vault file (change <DateTypePropertyName> to the name of the property you want to change):

$day = 5
$month = 8
$year = 2018

$date = [System.DateTime]::new($year, $month, $day)
Update-VaultFile -File $file._FullPath -Properties @{<DateTypePropertyName> = $date}

To update the property with the current date you can use e.g.

$currentDate = Get-date
$updatedFile = Update-VaultFile -File $file._FullPath -Properties @{
    "ModifiedOn" = $currentDate
}

See Also

Update-VaultFile (coolOrange Wiki)

Get-Date (MSDN)

DateTime Structure (MSDN)