Breaking CIM sessions
Richard Siddaway's Blog A CIM session is analogous to a PowerShell remoting session but for CIM based cmdlets – the CIM cmdlets themselves and any CDXML based cmdlets e.g. the networking cmdlets By...
View ArticleBuilding Better PowerShell Dashboards
FoxDeploy.com First off, YUUGE props to Flynn Bundy for shining lights on the possibility with his post Making DSC Beautiful and @Neeco of HTML5Up.com for these gorgeous HTML5 and CSS templates. If...
View ArticleSafely storing credentials and other things with PowerShell
FoxDeploy.com Hey guys, This post is mostly going to be me sharing an answer I wrote on StackOverflow, about a technique I use in my PowerShell modules on Github to safely store credentials, and...
View ArticleCreate a GPO for PowerShell 5.0 settings
I’ve written the following piece of code to automate the creation of a Group Policy that would configure all the new PowerShell 5 settings – ScriptBlock Logging, Protected EventLog and … Source: Create...
View ArticleOpen source PowerShell and OMI
Richard Siddaway's Blog OMI – the Open Source CIM server is available on github https://github.com/Microsoft/omi This appears to be a later version than currently shown on the open group web site...
View ArticleFirst release of AutoRuns module
You may remember the excellent PowerShell Security series from PowerShell Magazine where I presented a Get-PSAutoRun function to investigate malware persistence ala “Sysinternals autorunsR… Source:...
View ArticleFirst release of AutoRuns module
>_ You may remember the excellent PowerShell Security series from PowerShell Magazine where I presented a Get-PSAutoRun function to investigate malware persistence ala “Sysinternals autoruns”. I’ve...
View ArticleServer Uptime
Richard Siddaway's Blog Its easy to get the last boot time of a Windows machine but how do you get the uptime function Get-Uptime { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [string]$ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME...
View ArticleComparing Objects using JSON in PowerShell for Pester Tests
PowerShell, Programming and DevOps Recently I spent the good part of a weekend putting together Pester Tests (click here if you aren’t familiar with Pester) for my LabBuilder PowerShell module- a...
View ArticleComparing Objects using JSON in PowerShell for Pester Tests
Recently I spent the good part of a weekend putting together Pester Tests (click here if you aren’t familiar with Pester) for my LabBuilder PowerShell module- a module to build a set of Virtu… Source:...
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