Getting Started with PowerShell 2 – Part 3
My “getting started” series ran out of steam a bit partly because I didn’t get much feedback on them — maybe you’re not interested, or maybe it wasn’t easy enough, or was just too confusing. In any case, I want to put up at least this one last post to suggest that you get the [...]
PowerShell Script Repository and Code Signing
There’s been a lot of discussion on the #PowerShell IRC channel about code signing lately — mostly in response to my earlier posts (which I won’t link to here, because I should probably retract some of it after the discussions we’ve had). The discussion mostly revolves around how code signing applies to the PowerShell script [...]
Getting Started with PowerShell 2 – Part 2
This continues a short series of posts about getting started with PowerShell … with a few tips about things you can do to keep your PowerShell profile safe and organized. Your “profile” is the script that is automatically loaded when you start up PowerShell. Really, I should say that your profile is the set of [...]
Code Signing with OpenSSL and PowerShell
One of the major security features of PowerShell is the support for code signing of scripts, so that you can set an execution policy that requires scripts to be signed before they can be run. Of course, it goes a bit further than that. When a script has been signed by a certificate with a [...]