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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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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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Manage Windows Features with PowerShell

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.

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Managing Local User Accounts with 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.

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Creating Local Accounts with Windows 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.

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Find User-Based Service Accounts with PowerShell and Command Line

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.

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Command Line WMI: Formatting Data

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

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Command Line WMI: Query Remote Machines

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.

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Command Line WMI: Basic Syntax and Querying

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.

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Find Service Pack Information

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.

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Integrating Microsoft Excel with PowerShell: Reading Data

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

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