The Windows Compatibility module (WindowsCompatibility) is a PowerShell module that lets PowerShell Core 6 scripts access Windows PowerShell modules that are not yet natively available on PowerShell Core. (Note: the list of unavailable commands is getting smaller with each new release of PowerShell Core. This module is just for things aren’t natively supported yet.)
After a delay of more than five weeks, Microsoft has resumed the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The company also promised sweeping changes in the way it approaches quality issues, including better communication with customers.
Windows 10 has included Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) as optional features since the Insider Preview Build 17682. Therefore, you no longer need to download and install these tools manually on the admin workstation after an OS upgrade. Instead, you can add them via the Settings app or by using PowerShell.
PowerShell type accelerators are aliases for .NET classes or types, which makes using classes in PowerShell scripts much easier. The intention behind type accelerators is to use shorter names for .NET classes and types and save some unnecessary typing. For example, when you use the type accelerator to define an integer value, there's actually no data type called int. Instead, it's just an alias for the class.
If you are a developer or system administrator that wants to learn about working with containers, Docker for Windows provides a great way to get up and running quickly. Windows 10 contains built in support for Windows Containers and Hyper-V Containers. Additionally, you can run Linux containers using Hyper-V, a minimal Linux kernel and userland in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and in Windows Server 1709 or later.
In this article, I will show you how to create a Linux container in Windows 10 using Docker for Windows. If you want to perform the same task on Windows Server, you’ll need Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) instead. To follow the instructions below, you must be running Windows 10 version 1709 or later, on a device that supports Hyper-V with at least 4096MB of RAM. Docker for Windows supports 64-bit Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 10 only.
We’re proud to announce that the latest version of PowerShell has been released! This marks our second supported release of PowerShell Core, the open-source edition of PowerShell that works on Linux, macOS, and Windows!
By far, the biggest feature of this release is compatibility of built-in Windows modules with PowerShell Core. This means that you can natively run those modules/cmdlets with PowerShell Core and easily transition from Windows PowerShell.
Is WordPress Secure? Here's What the Data SaysIs WordPress secure? Read this post for a data-backed look at how WordPress sites get hacked, and whether or not WordPress is actually secure.
Microsoft’s John Wilcox last week posted a primer on Microsoft’s patching scheme, designed to help people understand how the company patches Windows. Here’s a translation in less obfuscatory terms, with a bit of real-world commentary.
Now that Windows 10 supports running several different Linux distros, Microsoft has added a flag to NTFS that forces the file system to recognize files and folders that are only different by case differently. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to enable the flag on a folder and explain why you might need this feature
Easily examine and understand any Windows
system's hardware and software capability to
prevent Meltdown and Spectre attacks.
Source : Gibson Research Corporation
We are excited to announce the public preview of Visual Studio Live Share! At Connect last November, we showed how Live Share enables real-time collaborative editing and debugging from the comfort of your favorite tools. Since then, we’ve worked with thousands of developers worldwide, resolved hundreds of issues, and addressed top feature requests such as adding support for Linux. We’ve benefitted greatly from all the feedback thus far, thank you! Today, we’re excited to announce that every developer using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code can get started with Live Share today!
Windows Defender, which protects Windows 10 PCs from malware, can now keep your Mac safe from inside Google Chrome. Microsoft has turned its antivirus app into a Chrome extension that promises to detect phishing links in your emails and dodgy sites that distribute malicious software. It’s 99 percent effective, according to Microsoft, which makes Windows Defender better than rival browser protections.
So if your older scanner suddenly doesn’t work consider this: In 1709 if you did an in place upgrade, you retain the SMBv1 in your networking configuration. However because this is deemed very unsafe (and it is a risk to keep it enabled), Microsoft does a check to see if you are still using it. “In-place upgrades and Insider flights of Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Professional do not automatically remove SMB1 initially. If the SMBv1 client or server is not used for 15 days in total (excluding the time during which the computer is off), they each automatically uninstall themselves.” So 15 days after SMBv1 on the client is not used, the system will send a dism command to disable SMBv1
Firstly... Before you start reading this, you should be familiar with the DualScan Feature of Windows 10. Find more information on the following blog posts. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wsus/2017/08/04/improving-dual-scan-on-1607/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configurationmgr/2017/10/10/using-configmgr-with-windows-10-wufb-deferral-policies/ If you decided to disable DualScan (Do not allow update deferral policies to cause scan against Windows Update - Enabled) this post is for you. Let's double check...
Unless you’ve been stuck in a data center server rack, you’ve most likely heard about the next version of PowerShell, referred to as PowerShell Core. This version will run on Windows, Linux and Mac systems. For those of you considering running it on a Windows box, allow me to share 5 things you should know.
Windows Server has come a long way since Windows NT. First, we could virtualize Windows Server, and now we can even play in the realm which what was once an exclusive Linux feature: containers! Nowadays, we can bring up a Windows Server container in Docker just as easily as a Linux container, but how? Since Microsoft is a fairly recent player in the container market, the concept of Docker and containers is probably new to a lot of Microsoft shops. The best way to learn about something is doing, so let’s do it.
For this article, we’re going to start from a Windows Server 2016 host since this is the earliest version of Windows in which you can run a true Docker host.
You can run code or an entire script conveniently from the editor in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) with the Code Runner extension. The VSCode PowerShell extension adds other important features that you know from PowerShell ISE.
No, really…this isn’t clickbait. For the past few weeks, we’ve been working with the Microsoft WSL team to get Kali Linux introduced into the Microsoft App Store as an official WSL distribution and today we’re happy to announce the availability of the “Kali Linux” Windows application. For Windows 10 users, this means you can simply enable WSL, search for Kali in the Windows store, and install it with a single click. This is especially exciting news for penetration testers and security professionals who have limited toolsets due to enterprise compliance standards.
Source : https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-in-the-windows-app-store/
There's still quite a few questions on how to install PowerCLI to offline systems. We're going to take a much closer look at that with this post!
One of the most annoying problems that has existed with PowerShell ever since we got PowerShell remoting in v2 is the infamous double-hop or multi-hop problem. This occurs if you try connect to another remote computer from within your remote session.
I recently discovered a new way to solve this problem that uses session configurations. This "new" way allows you to tie a credential to a PowerShell session configuration and reuse this configuration for all future connections.
PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud.
Security researchers have uncovered how marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old bug in browsers' built-in password managers, which allow them to secretly steal your email address for targeted advertising across different browsers and devices.
The major concern is that the same loophole could allow malicious actors to steal your saved usernames and passwords from browsers without requiring your interaction.
Don't waste your time trying to understand what this blog is about or why is there so many unrelated news in it (from Formula 1 to computer programming). It's simply my own personal blog where I can put any information I like.