Jeff Hicks

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks shares beginning tips and tricks for getting started with extending objects in Windows PowerShell.

PowerShell is all about working with objects. Some commands can return hundreds if not thousands of objects and often you only really need small subset. To get the small subset, you need to perform some type of filtering.

One of the features that both makes PowerShell so easy to use yet sometimes difficult to learn is its focus on objects. I have taught PowerShell objects to many people over the last 10 years and this is not as difficult as people make it out to be. That is to say, I think many…

PowerShell guru Jeff Hicks shows how to use the Where() method to do similar filtering tasks that you might use Where-Object for. In some cases, the Where() method does more.

Need to search for a string inside a string? Never fear, PowerShell substring is here! In this article, I guide you through how to ditch objects and search inside strings. The PowerShell substring I love being on social media because I always come across something interesting related to PowerShell. Sometimes it is a trick I…

Grep (Global Regular Expression Print) is a commonly used Linux command for searching strings of characters in text files. There’s is no such thing as PowerShell grep. But naturally, you can get the same functionality in PowerShell. You’ll just need to use the Select-String cmdlet instead. In this article, I’ll show you how to get…

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks shows us how to achieve PowerShell string parsing with named captures and REGEX.

Understand how to use conditional breakpoints in PowerShell to test and debug different scripts and functions.

PowerShell is an object-oriented shell for Windows, Linux, and macOS. And as such, you will need to understand how to work with PowerShell objects to get the best out of it. In this article, PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks takes you through the different ways you can use the PowerShell Select-Object cmdlet. I think by nature…

You’ve learned to export scheduled tasks, but what’s next? Learn to import scheduled tasks using PowerShell, SchTasks.exe and Microsoft Management Console.