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Summary : Microsoft senior technical writer, Yuri Diogenes, and knowledge engineer, Tom Shinder, talk about using Windows PowerShell to protect a Windows Server 2012-based cloud infrastructure. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Guest bloggers Yuri Diogenes and Tom Shinder are back with...

Summary : Microsoft senior technical writer, Yuri Diogenes, and knowledge engineer, Tom Shinder, talk about using Windows PowerShell to protect a Windows Server 2012-based cloud infrastructure. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Guest bloggers Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes are back with...

Summary : Microsoft senior technical writer, Yuri Diogenes, and knowledge engineer, Tom Shinder, talk about using Windows PowerShell to protect a Windows Server 2012-based cloud infrastructure. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we start a three-part series by Yuri Diogenes and Tom...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to easily decrypt the Windows PowerShell secure string password. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have an FTP site that I have to use on a regular basis. I need an easy way to get a credential and use that credential with the FTP site so that I can download...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find certificates that are about to expire. Hey, Scripting Guy! We recently implemented an internal certification authority that we use for various scenarios, such as issuing code-signing certificates for our developers...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about the dreaded "second-hop" problem with Windows PowerShell and how to overcome it with CredSSP. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. First, a description of the problem In yesterday’s article, I talked about using the Windows...

Summary: Learn how to identify domain firewall rules by using Windows PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. How can I find specific Domain profile firewall rules on my computer running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012? Use the Get-NetFirewallRule cmdlet and specify the enabled parameter...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to create new Windows Firewall rules on local and remote systems. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, we are off to Europe. The Scripting Wife and I are actually on separate flights—it’s the...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to work with Windows Firewall on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The Scripting Wife returned home from the Windows PowerShell Saturday #003 event in Atlanta, Georgia, last...

Summary : Guest blogger, Niklas Goude, talks about using Windows PowerShell to decrypt LSA Secrets from the registry to gain access to domain admin rights. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have the exciting conclusion to the Security Week blogs by Niklas Goude. Niklas Goude...

Summary : Guest blogger, Niklas Goude, shows how to use P/Invoke to duplicate process tokens from LSASS to elevate privileges. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have Part 4 of our five part security series written by guest blogger, Niklas Goude. Niklas Goude is a Security Consultant...

Summary : Guest blogger, Niklas Goude, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to discover valuable network information from shares and file metadata. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We now come to Part 3 of Security Week with another guest blog by Niklas Goude. Niklas Goude is a Security...

Summary : Guest blogger, Niklas Goude, talks about using Windows PowerShell to perform brute force security testing on SQL Server and SharePoint. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have Niklas Goude back with Part 2 of his Security Week series. Niklas Goude is a Security Consultant...

Summary : Guest blogger, Niklas Goude, discusses using Windows PowerShell to perform ping sweeps and port scans on a connected network. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This week we have guest blogger Niklas Goude. Before we get to Niklas, I want to mention that you should mark your calendars...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to compute MD5 hashes and find files changed in a folder. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder and I would like to detect if files within it have changed. I do not want to write a script to parse file sizes and dates modified because that seems to be a...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the Windows PowerShell PSCX Get-Hash cmdlet to get hash files in a directory. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question that I hope will not require a lot of work on your part. I need to find the MD5 hash of files and folders. I use this...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses using Windows PowerShell to dump and to analyze event logs—including security logs. Hey, Scripting Guy! I often need to process Windows event logs when I am called to do a forensic investigation of a server. One of the problems with saving...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses using Windows PowerShell to aid in security forensic analysis of processes and services on a compromised system. Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that somewhere I read that you have your CISSP certification, so I expect that you know about security...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to explore Active Directory Security settings on objects. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. My boss told me I need to document the access rights for objects that are in Active Directory. I have absolutely no idea how to do this. I open up Active Directory...

Summary : Microsoft PFE, Georges Maheu, optimizes the Windows PowerShell script he presented yesterday. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Our guest blogger today is Georges Maheu. Georges presented a script yesterday to gather Windows services information in an Excel spreadsheet. Although...

Summary : Microsoft PFE, Georges Maheu, opens his security assessment toolbox to discuss a Windows PowerShell script he uses to look at Windows services. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Our guest blogger today is Georges Maheu . Georges is one of my best friends, and I had a chance to...

Summary : Learn how to modify a Windows PowerShell script and turn it into an advanced function that accepts piped input and has complete Help. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Some things end up being way more complicated than they might appear at first glance. Today’s script is...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to determine who has permissions to a shared folder. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is finally the weekend here in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. It has seemed like a rather long week...

Summary : Superhero BATCHman restores NTFS security permissions using Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well, it is time once again for BATCHman. This time, it is Episode 12. Take it away, Sean. When the digital crash In a blink and a splash A gleam in the night...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to convert security descriptors to different formats. Hey, Scripting Guy! I was reading through a listing of WMI methods recently, and I ran across a WMI class that looks interesting— Win32_SecurityDescriptorHelper . I think it will help me, because...