PowerShell - Useful Commands

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Uptime

 The script below will give you the uptime in any version of PowerShell.

Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem | Select LastBootUpTime

The Get-Uptime cmdlet was introduced in PowerShell 6.0.

Get-Uptime

Format processes by start date

This command will show a lot of errors if you're not running PowerShell as Administrator.

Get-Process | Sort-Object StartTime | Format-Table -View StartTime

Active Directory Account Information

This command will show you the date of the last password set for a user.

Get-ADUser -Identity [USERNAME] -properties * | select accountexpirationdate, accountexpires, accountlockouttime, badlogoncount, padpwdcount, lastbadpasswordattempt, lastlogondate, lockedout, passwordexpired, passwordlastset, pwdlastset | format-list

Sources:
PowerShell Format-Table