Scripting Wife Learns About Unblocking Files in PowerShell

re: Scripting Wife Learns About Unblocking Files in PowerShell

Eric — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:44:39 GMT

I have just discovered that Powershell 3.0 has the Unblock-File cmdlet, which makes things easier !

technet.microsoft.com/.../hh849924.aspx

re: Scripting Wife Learns About Unblocking Files in PowerShell

JM — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:46:43 GMT

This is very cool. BUT....

What I would really love to do is to only remove the zone stream -- the one that causes the block. I think that streams -d deletes all streams.

Now granted, I can't think of one other thing that streams get used for today, so you could argue that I'm being pedantic. But what if MS, or some other vendor does come up with something else to do with streams? If that happened, I wouldn't want to delete those streams. Is there an "unblock" API in Windows that we could expose to Powershell? WMI command? Other options?

re: Scripting Wife Learns About Unblocking Files in PowerShell

IamMred — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:45:42 GMT

@Nicolas Blank I am glad you learned alot from the article. Thank you! It makes my day when I see good comments. The family that scripts together stays together :-)

re: Scripting Wife Learns About Unblocking Files in PowerShell

Nicolas Blank — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:03:08 GMT

SERIOUSLY interesting posts. Exposes things I didn't know about the downloaded script security as WELL as the NTFS stream functionality. Wohoo!

Well done on a great post, even if it exposes that you two script together :p