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 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.

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.

One of Windows simplest time-saving features, the “right-click” context menu, enables you to perform an array of tasks in the context of whatever Windows object you are working with. In this article, we show you how to add “Open PowerShell” to this context menu, enabling you to open PowerShell in the context of whatever folder or object you are working with.

In this video post, Jeff hicks goes through the first 5 of the top 10 tasks to perform with PowerShell in Windows Server 2008. In part 1 Jeff covers changing local administrator passwords, restarting & shutting down servers, terminating or restarting processes and creating a disk utilization report, all with PowerShell.