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: Sep 04, 2024
Jeff Hicks discusses using Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Jeff Hicks continues his series on using Active Directory with PowerShell, ADSI, and LDAP by walking you through the creation of Active Directory accounts.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
This series on managing Active Directory with PowerShell, ADSI, and LDAP continues with a look at group-user accounts.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
This series of articles is about managing Active Directory with PowerShell, ADSI, and LDAP. This article focuses on single-user accounts.

Last Update: Jun 05, 2025
This is series of articles about managing Active Directory with PowerShell. This one particularly focuses on using the LDAP moniker.

Last Update: May 08, 2025
PowerShell is all about having options. This article spends some time going over how to manage Active Directory using alternative methods.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Here are some ideas on how you might want to start using Write-Verbose.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
Jeff Hicks wraps up his series on XML and PowerShell by walking you through the process of importing complex XML into PowerShell.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In the seventh installment in this series, Jeff demonstrates how to properly import XML data into PowerShell.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In the sixth installment in this series, you will learn how to bring XML files into PowerShell if you used the Export-Clixml cmdlet.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
The fifth installment of this series demonstrates another technique to assemble an XML document from scratch using the .NET Framework.

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
In the fourth installment of this series on working with XML in PowerShell, you will learn how to assemble an XML file from a variety of parts.