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About Me
I am certified Microsoft professional, a Microsoft MVP and an IT veteran with almost 20 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT consultant specializing in Windows server technologies. I work today as an independent author, trainer and consultant. I've co-authored or authored several books, courseware, and training videos on administrative scripting and automation. My latest book is Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShel: TFM 2nd Ed.(SAPIEN Press 2011).
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Author Archives: Jeffery Hicks
Friday Fun Get Content Words
Recently I was tracking down a bug in script for a client. The problem turned out to be a simple typo. I could have easily avoided that by using Set-StrictMode, which I do now, but that’s not what this is … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Get-Content, PowerShell, regex, Regular Expressions, Scripting, Select-Object
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PowerShell in a Nutshell
This past weekend I did an online presentation for a friend of mine who teaches for ITT in Omaha, Nebraska. He wanted me to do a brief talk about what PowerShell is and show how to use it, especially for … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting, Training, Windows Server, WMI
Tagged PowerShell, Training, video
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Friday Fun: A PowerShell Alarm Clock
Today’s Friday Fun is a continuation of my exploration of ways to use Start-Job. A few weeks ago I wrote about using Start-Job to create “scheduled” tasks. I realized I could take this further and turn this into a sort … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged FridayFun, Jobs, PowerShell, Start-Job
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Using Types with Imported CSV Data in PowerShell
The Import-CSV cmdlet in PowerShell is incredibly useful. You can take any CSV file and pump objects to the pipeline. The cmdlet uses the CSV header as properties for the custom object. PS S:\> import-csv .\testdata.csv Date : 1/18/2012 … Continue reading
Posted in PowerShell v2.0, Scripting
Tagged Import-CSV, objects, PowerShell, Scripting, Sort, Where-Object
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Friday Fun: Output to 2 Places in 1
Today’s Friday Fun comes out of a short exchange I had yesterday with Hal Rottenberg on Google Plus. We were playing around with piping a PowerShell command to Clip.exe which dumps the output to the Windows Clipboard. I got to … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, PowerShell v2.0
Tagged FridayFun, Function, PowerShell, Tee-Object, Write-Host
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