Jeff Hicks

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.

We back with our series on integrating Microsoft Word with PowerShell! Learn how to add formatting and style to Word documents using PowerShell in part 2 of this series.

In this two-part series, discover how to integrate PowerShell with Microsoft Word. In part 1, learn to generate a Word file.

Jeff Hicks continues his two-part series on creating custom events in the Windows Event Log. In this post, Jeff explains how to use PowerShell to create the log events as opposed to EVENTCREATE.EXE which he demonstrated in Part 1.

In part 1 of his two-part series, Jeff Hicks explains how to create events/entries inside the Windows event logs. There are a variety of reasons why this could be useful, and Jeff covers a few, and luckily creating an event is pretty straightforward once you get a hang of it.

One of the most common reasons computers fail is because of faulty or failed memory and Windows does a good job alerting you after the memory has failed. It is better to find failing memory before it has crippled your machine though. In this post, Jeff Hicks explains how to use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool to diagnose memory issues.

In part 2 of his series on command line event logs, Jeff Hicks discusses how to manage the event logs with the command line and WEVTUTIL.EXE

Jeff Hicks is back with more command line tricks. In today’s post, Jeff talks about how you can manage event logs with the command line. This is usually faster than navigating through a GUI once you get a hang of it.