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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.

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Creating Custom Objects in PowerShell with the Original Object

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn to create custom objects in PowerShell while keeping the original object in part two of this series.

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Creating Custom Objects in PowerShell : Introduction

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn to create your own custom object in Powershell in this four-part series.

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WinRM – Not Just for PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Did you know you can leverage WinRM outside of PowerShell? Jeff Hicks shows you how to do exactly that.

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Where Is the File: Using Get-FileItem

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

In Part 1 of this series, Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks demonstrated how to use a command line utility called where.exe. In the second part of this series, Jeff shows you how to use another command line alternative called Get-FileItem to help you find the files you’re looking for.

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Where is the File: Using Where.exe

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you’ve ever run commands from a command prompt and run into problems, Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks has a solution for you. In this tutorial Jeff shows how to use a command line utility called where.exe. In part 2 of this series, Jeff will show you another command line alternative to help you find the files you’re looking for.

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Windows Server 2012: First Five Fixes

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

What do you do with a brand new Windows Server 2012 install? Let PowerShell MVP, Jeff Hicks, show you his “first five fixes” for a new Windows Server 2012 build that although you might not think of immediately, will prove to pay off down the road.

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Using the Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2

Last Update: Jun 05, 2025

In a previous article in this series, PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks walked us through enabling the Active Directory Recycle Bin feature. In this post, Jeff demonstrates how to easily recover deleted objects in Active Directory using PowerShell.

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Setting Up the Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Windows Server 2008 R2 has introduced an exciting new feature, the Active Directory Recycle Bin. In this post, Jeff Hicks shows how to enable the feature with PowerShell to recover deleted objects in your AD.

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Managed Service Accounts: Change or Roll Back the MSA

Read on to learn how to change or roll back the Managed Service Account (MSA) in part three of this series.

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Managed Service Accounts: Configure a Service Using MSA

Learn how to connect the MSA to the computer account in Active Directory in part two of this series.

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Managed Service Accounts: MSA Setup

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Service account management can be pretty labor intensive, but there might be an alternative. In part 1 of this two-part series, Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks goes over a feature called Managed Service Accounts (msa). In Part 2, Jeff will cover how to deploy the accounts.

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Manage Windows Features with PowerShell: Add Feature or Role

In Part 2 of this two-part series, we show you how to add a feature or role to a Windows Server 2008 R2 system using Windows PowerShell and the ServerManager module.

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