Jeff Hicks

Configuring and managing servers can be a bit time consuming, especially if you need to manage a feature on 10 servers. Discover a much quicker and easier way to manage servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 – using Windows PowerShell.

In the first part of this series, PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks demonstrated how to create a local user account with Windows Powershell. In this follow-up article, Jeff walks you through some basic management tasks accomplished with PowerShell.

Are you looking for an easy way to set up additional local user accounts? In this post, PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks shows how easy it is to set up these accounts across multiple machines remotely, using Windows PowerShell.

In this post, Jeff Hicks shows how to identify what accounts your services are running under, as well as identify potential problems before they become major headaches, using both PowerShell and the command line.

In the conclusion of this series on Command Line WMI, Jeff looks at some advanced ways of formatting data.

The ability to gather information from remote computers is where WMI can really come in handy. In Part 2 of this three-part series, Jeff Hicks shows how to query remote machines and work with WMIC right from the command line.

In part 1 of this series, Jeff Hicks shows you how to take advantage of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and how to use it as a database you can query, without a single bit of scripting or using a PowerShell command.

Are you having issues figuring out what service packs you have installed on your device? Jeff Hicks show you how to gather this info using the command line tool, WMIC.EXE, as well as by using Windows PowerShell.

In part three of this series, learn how to read data from an Excel file using PowerShell.

In the second of this three-part series, Jeff Hicks goes into even more detail about how to create a rich Excel document with PowerShell. In the conclusion of this series, which will be posted next week, he will explain how to look at reading data from Excel files.

In the first of this three-part series, Jeff Hicks details how to integrate PowerShell with Microsoft Excel by exporting Excel files from PowerShell.

Jeff Hicks returns with an excellent and easy to use tip. With a few commands, Compact.exe can compress files and folders on the fly. Although easy to use, Jeff suggests testing Compact.exe out in a non-production environment first to avoid running into any issues.