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First, You Have PowerShell, and Then It’s Gone

As someone brought up on Windows shell commands, the advancement of PowerShell was a great step forward. Unbelievable Windows shell is still supported on new versions of Microsoft Windows. But now, PowerShell is disabled by default in Windows 11 because of all the security problems it caused on machines:

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But, it can be easily enabled by running a terminal as an Administrator:

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and then enabling with:

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To me, PowerShell is great, and such a powerful language for both developers and network administrators. In fact, we built a whole cloud infrastructure in vSphere with PowerShell. The great thing with PowerShell is that it is based on .NET, so if you have a piece of code in C#, you can normally convert it into a PowerShell version.

So here’s some PowerShell:

https://asecuritysite.com/powershell/

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Written by Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.