posts-powershell

Internally, Active Directory stores all passwords as so-called NTLM Hashes. There are a number of security-analysis tools that can read and dump...

Here’s a fun PowerShell script that you can use to create a simple multi-channel chat room. All you need is a network share where everyone has...

In previous tips, we already talked about services such as haveIbeenpwned.com. They harvest leaked passwords from previous hacker attacks so you can...

It can be very useful to be able to convert an encrypted SecureString back to a plain text. This way, for example, you can use PowerShell’s...

If your script requires external binary resources such as picture files or DLLs, you can of course ship them together with your script. You could,...

In October 2018, a Windows 10 update added built-in SSH support to Windows 10. From now on, Windows 10 ships with a command-line tool called “ssh”....

In the previous tip we illustrated how you can download a PowerShell script which automatically downloads the latest version of PowerShell Core....

As you probably know, Windows PowerShell (the one shipping in Windows) is done, and all efforts go into development of the new cross-platform...

Here is a one-liner that retrieves your current public IP address: PS> Invoke-RestMethod -Uri http://ipinfo.io ip : 87.153.224.209 hostname :...

PowerShell comes with a powerful yet simple way of monitoring file changes. Let’s assume you have a log file that changes every now and then....

In Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, PowerShell can access storage reliability data so you can find out whether there is something wrong with one...

PowerShell can execute internal PowerShell commands and also regular console commands, so it’s not a bad thing to continue to use console...