PowerShell provides many ways to work with files and with other sorts of structured data it treats as files. Typically as shown before we can use the same commands as in cmd.exe but they parameters change also we can call many using he names of commands found in Unix type systems, these are aliases for […]
PowerShell Cmdlets You will notice that for the PowerShell commands I use the word Cmdlet, that is how Microsoft calls and spells the word. In a PowerShell shell you can execute regular windows commands in addition to the cmdlets and most work without any problem some may experience problems depending on the parameters used since […]
What Is PowerShell I do believe that one of the biggest skills that both Administrator and Security Professional should have is to be able to automate tasks on a systems they are responsible for. Many old Unix long bearded veterans say that admins are lazy and they script and automate tasks because of that, I […]
In my last 2 blog post I covered the creation of group policy objects for distributing certificates to all computers in a domain and enable Network Level Authentication on them plus also covered how to create and use WMI filters to specify which machines a Group Policy Object should apply to. On this blog post […]
One of the problems that we see every day in production environments is that even when we would like to have all machines on the same version of Windows many times this is not possible so we have to adapt our Group Policies to these environments. Microsoft provides a great way to check several parameters […]
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