Re: snapshot script help

Thanks, I modified the portion of script you posted (below) to help me learn how it works and ran it to verify the results.

All the fields (Description, Created On, etc) looks ok except for "Created By" which is either blank or the wrong user listed multiple times.  I'm dealing with snapshots that are only a day or two old.

Write-Verbose "Getting list of Old Snapshots"

    $OldSnapshotList = Get-VM | get-snapshot

    IF ($OldSnapshotList -ne $null)

        {

        Write-Verbose "Getting Additional Snapshot Details"

        #Open report array

        $Report = @()

        $SnapUser = ""

        FOREACH ($Snapshot in $OldSnapshotList)

            {

            #Use Task log SDK to get the user who created the Snapshot

            $TaskMgr = Get-View TaskManager

            $TaskNumber = 100

            #Create task filter for search

            $Filter = New-Object VMware.Vim.TaskFilterSpec

            $Filter.Time = New-Object VMware.Vim.TaskFilterSpecByTime

            $Filter.Time.beginTime = ((($Snapshot.Created).AddSeconds(-5)).ToUniversalTime())

            $Filter.Time.timeType = "startedTime"

            $Filter.Time.EndTime = ((($Snapshot.Created).AddSeconds(5)).ToUniversalTime())

            $Filter.State = "success"

            $Filter.Entity = New-Object VMware.Vim.TaskFilterSpecByEntity

            $Filter.Entity.recursion = "self"

            $Filter.Entity.entity = (Get-Vm -Name $Snapshot.VM.Name).Extensiondata.MoRef

            $TaskCollector = Get-View ($TaskMgr.CreateCollectorForTasks($Filter))

            $TaskCollector.RewindCollector | Out-Null

            $Tasks = $TaskCollector.ReadNextTasks($TaskNumber)

                #Get only the task for the snapshot in question and out put the username of the snapshot creator

                FOREACH ($Task in $Tasks)

                    {

                    $GuestName = $Snapshot.VM

                    $Task = $Task | where {$_.DescriptionId -eq "VirtualMachine.createSnapshot" -and $_.State -eq "success" -and $_.EntityName -eq $GuestName}                        

                    IF ($Task -ne $null)

                        {

                        $SnapUser = $Task

                        }

                    $TaskCollector.ReadNextTasks($TaskNumber)

                    }

                #Create a custom object for reporting

                $objReport = New-Object System.Object

  $objReport | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Snapshot Name" -Value $Snapshot.Name

                $objReport | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Description" -Value $Snapshot.Description               

                $objReport | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Created By" -Value $SnapUser.Reason.Username

                $objReport | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Attached To" -Value $Snapshot.VM

                $objReport | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Created On" -Value $Snapshot.Created

                $Report += $objReport

            #There is a default limit of 32 collector objects, destroying collector after use

            $TaskCollector.DestroyCollector()

            }

  }

  $report