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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By : David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
Book Image

Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

By: David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters

Overview of this book

Beginning with an overview of the different versions of PowerShell, Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 introduces you to VSCode and then dives into helping you understand the basic techniques in PowerShell scripting. You will cover advanced coding techniques, learn how to write reusable code as well as store and load data with PowerShell. This book will help you understand PowerShell security and Just Enough Administration, enabling you to create your own PowerShell repository. The last set of chapters will guide you in setting up, configuring, and working with Release Pipelines in VSCode and VSTS, and help you understand PowerShell DSC. In addition to this, you will learn how to use PowerShell with Windows, Azure, Microsoft Online Services, SCCM, and SQL Server. The final chapter will provide you with some use cases and pro tips. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional reusable code using security insight and knowledge of working with PowerShell Core 6.0 and its most important capabilities.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7


  1. Public opinion, news, been used in pentesting frameworks.
  2. No - comparisons between different scripting languages shows the facts.
  3. PowerShell is insecure, PowerShell Remoting is insecure, ExecutionPolicy is a Security Feature, and PowerShell is just PowerShell.exe.
  4. Module logging, transcription logging, scriptblock logging.
  5. Detection, prevention, and respond a good baseline of all three compartments.
  6. Secured by default, using WinRM, by default allowed for administrators group.
  7. It controls how PowerShell scripts can be executed as scripts. PowerShell scripts can also be executed as commands, and there are many bypasses available.
  8. System.Management.Automation.dll - .NET Framework
  9. Extended security features and enforcement capabilities
  10. Whitelisting tool
  11. If AppLocker is enforced in Allow mode, the interactive shell and every PowerShell script that isn't whitelisted will be executed in ConstrainedLanguageMode.
  12. Principle of least privilege, ConstrainedLanguageMode, Logging.