Which DNS records would be scavenged - AD

In connection with a previous post on listing DNS scavenging settings, I thought I'd post those couple of lines of codes which gave me confidence before turning on or modifying scavenging settings - before I turn on any automation which only exists to delete stuff from production environment I always have a second thought when I put my head on the pillow, "did I really set the right values or will the phone ring in 2 hours waking me up and telling me there's a DNS outage?"

To make it a bit more scientific than "close your eyes and click OK", here is a couple of lines of PS which can help you identify all records from a DNS zone which would be deleted based on your thresholds.

• Set parameters, DNS server name, the DNS zone and the age threshold which specifies how many days older records should be deleted. Scavenging has a 7 + 7 days "No-refresh" + "Refresh" interval, so records older than 14 days will potentially be deleted when scavenging process runs:
  #set parameters
  $server = "c3podc1"
  $domain = "tatooine.com"
  $agetreshold = 14
• Threshold in hours from Microsoft's beginning of time definition (1st Jan 1601):
  # calculate how many hours is the age which will be the threshold
  $minimumTimeStamp = [int] (New-TimeSpan -Start $(Get-Date ("01/01/1601 00:00")) -End $((Get-Date).AddDays(-$agetreshold))).TotalHours
  
• Enumerate all records older than the time threshold
  # get all records from the zone whose age is more than our threshold $records = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $dnsServer -Namespace "root\MicrosoftDNS" -Query "select * from MicrosoftDNS_AType where Containername='$domain' AND TimeStamp<$minimumTimeStamp AND TimeStamp<>0 "
  
• List the records and the time stamps
  # list the name and the calculated last update time stamp
  $records | Select Ownername, @{n="timestamp";e={([datetime]"1.1.1601").AddHours($_.Timestamp)}}

The output should look like this:

The full script:

 #set parameters  
 $dnsServer = "c3podc1"  
 $domain = "tatooine.com"  
 $agetreshold = 14  
   
 # calculate how many hours is the age which will be the threshold  
 $minimumTimeStamp = [int] (New-TimeSpan -Start $(Get-Date ("01/01/1601 00:00")) -End $((Get-Date).AddDays(-$agetreshold))).TotalHours  
   
 # get all records from the zone whose age is more than our threshold   
 $records = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $dnsServer -Namespace "root\MicrosoftDNS" -Query "select * from MicrosoftDNS_AType where Containername='$domain' AND TimeStamp<$minimumTimeStamp AND TimeStamp<>0 "  
   
 # list the name and the calculated last update time stamp  
 $records | Select Ownername, @{n="timestamp";e={([datetime]"1.1.1601").AddHours($_.Timestamp)}}  
   

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