In my last post, I showed you how to display and find specific events with the Get-WinEvent cmdlet. Whereas you can filter event messages easily with the Where-Object cmdlet, using the Data key from the FilterHashtable parameter is much faster. Contents of this article – Measuring the speed difference – Raw data structure of an […]
IMPORTANT NOTE I If your .CER certificate contains a private key, you can only import it through the MMC console. Neither the certutil nor the Import-Certificate cmdlet keeps the private key during the import process. The Import-PfxCertificate cmdlet keeps the private key, but it does not import .CER certificates. IMPORTANT NOTE II Except for PFX […]
IMPORTANT NOTE If your .CER certificate contains a private key, you can only import it through the MMC console. Neither the certutil nor the Import-Certificate cmdlet keeps the private key during the import process. The Import-PfxCertificate cmdlet keeps the private key, but it does not import .CER certificates. Import the certificate with Certutil The following […]
Technically there is no security difference between the two methods. It’s only a matter of preferences and the behavior depends of a single registry value. Be prompted at the command line Set the ConsolePrompting value to True Be prompted from a dialog box Set the ConsolePrompting value to False or anything else than True. Or […]
If you have to find information in unstructured log files, PowerShell offers a variety of cmdlets that can help you parse text files to extract the information you need. In my last article, I showed you how to search the Windows Event Log with Get-Event. That’s where you usually spot most of the pertinent messages. […]
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