Jeffery Hicks is an IT veteran with over 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis on automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award.

Last Update: Dec 03, 2024
Have some extra time to unwind? Take a look at Jeff Hick’s summer reading list for system administrators, which includes resources to catch up on IPv6, Docker, and PowerShell technologies.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
During Microsoft Ignite, I took part in a community panel discussion on PowerShell. Well, not so much a discussion as questions and answers. One of the questions, which I get from time to time, concerned how to change the color of error messages in the PowerShell console. It is actually quite easy, and once you…

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Learn how to create PowerShell Scheduled Jobs to repeat itself for a specified amount of time in this quick tutorial by Jeff Hicks.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us steps to create alias, along with steps for finding orphan aliases.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Jeff Hicks provides a look into SAPIEN Technologies’ PowerShell Help Writer 2015, which helps IT pros write better PowerShell documentation.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
The New-JobTrigger cmdlet in Windows PowerShell is a great way to set up scheduled jobs for better automation of daily tasks.

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024
Jeff provides his must-learn skills for Windows System Administrators for a successful career, which include PowerShell and Microsoft Azure.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks shows us how to test Active Directory user accounts with a custom function in PowerShell.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us how to easily find the geographic location of an IP address.

Petri IT Knowledgebase Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks demonstrates how to use PowerShell management at scale to get large, complicated tasks accomplished.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In this final installment in this article series on building a PowerShell ping sweep tool, Jeff Hicks shows us how to easily add a port check to our existing tool.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Petri IT Knowledgebase Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks does some keyword analysis on the Ignite session catalog and comes up with some interesting data.