Script Add bulk user with CSV, and set expiration date

Question

After importing the AD module, the line:
Set-ADAccountExpiration -identity JohnDoe -timespan "365"
Works just fine, but how would you automate this with a script that would read a csv-file. The -identity cmd dosen't seem to like my $SAM setup. Perhaps it's a better way to get-aduser and pipe it to set-accountexpiration. Is there a swift way to add the
expire date to the user I just created with my CSV-file?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Thank You!
You're very welcome.
-AccountExpirationDate parameter of New-ADUser only seem to work with -DateTime, a specific date, while -TimeSpan is optimal for this solution.
You can use Get-Date's AddDays method to generate a datetime object for use in this situation, see the code I'm posting below for an example.
Now on to the next challange to warn me when they reach "32" days before expiration. Was thinking of running a Task Scheduled bath file that could collect number of days left and report it if below the mentioned days.
Here's one method you can use for finding these users:
$cutoffDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(32)
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase 'OU=Users - TEST,DC=domain,DC=com' -Properties AccountExpirationDate |
Where { $_.AccountExpirationDate -and $_.AccountExpirationDate -lt $cutoffDate }
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