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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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Discovering the Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Jeff Hicks discusses using Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell.

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Creating Active Directory User Accounts with ADSI and 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.

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Managing Active Directory Groups with ADSI and PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This series on managing Active Directory with PowerShell, ADSI, and LDAP continues with a look at group-user accounts.

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Active Directory User Accounts with PowerShell, ADSI, and LDAP

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.

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Managing Active Directory with PowerShell and the LDAP Moniker

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.

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How to Use PowerShell to Make ADSI Queries

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.

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Doing More with PowerShell Verbose Messages

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Here are some ideas on how you might want to start using Write-Verbose.

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Importing Complex XML into PowerShell

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.

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Importing More Data into PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In the seventh installment in this series, Jeff demonstrates how to properly import XML data into PowerShell.

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XML Data and 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.

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Creating Custom XML from .NET and PowerShell

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.

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Creating More Custom XML with PowerShell

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.

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