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Paul Klerkx
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the main question here is " Do I as an IT support officer need to sign the powershell scripts supplied in the windows 10 operating System"
We have the group policy " Turn on Script execution" enabled and set to "Allow only Signed scripts".
Will this affect the powershell scripts used in the Windows 10 operating System or does windows have something inbuilt that overrides the settings we apply. I'm thinking that it would block even the W10 built in scripts.
An example of what I am talking about are the 246 .ps1 files in the various diagnostic directories in c:\windows\diagnostics\system\ . our diags never come back with issues even when deliberately disabling components before running.
other areas that Powershell scripts live that I have found with a quick search -
C:\Windows\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft.powershell.odatautils_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.17763.1_none_d60dcab1d9234fab
C:\Program Files (x86)\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Operation.Validation\1.0.1\Diagnostics\Comprehensive
C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules - various folders in here.
Do we need to sign all powershell scripts that come with the OS?
Does Microsoft have a method of doing this?
Is there a list of script files that come with the OS so we don't just do a sign all approach, then find we have signed malware files.
we could probably configure something in the build task sequence to sign what is there initially. Is there any plan in place for Microsoft to start signing their scripts?
Will this be an ongoing process as updates are applied and files replaced, do we need to have a process in place to sign all PS1 files in the OS?
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We have the group policy " Turn on Script execution" enabled and set to "Allow only Signed scripts".
Will this affect the powershell scripts used in the Windows 10 operating System or does windows have something inbuilt that overrides the settings we apply. I'm thinking that it would block even the W10 built in scripts.
An example of what I am talking about are the 246 .ps1 files in the various diagnostic directories in c:\windows\diagnostics\system\ . our diags never come back with issues even when deliberately disabling components before running.
other areas that Powershell scripts live that I have found with a quick search -
C:\Windows\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft.powershell.odatautils_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.17763.1_none_d60dcab1d9234fab
C:\Program Files (x86)\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Operation.Validation\1.0.1\Diagnostics\Comprehensive
C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules - various folders in here.
Do we need to sign all powershell scripts that come with the OS?
Does Microsoft have a method of doing this?
Is there a list of script files that come with the OS so we don't just do a sign all approach, then find we have signed malware files.
we could probably configure something in the build task sequence to sign what is there initially. Is there any plan in place for Microsoft to start signing their scripts?
Will this be an ongoing process as updates are applied and files replaced, do we need to have a process in place to sign all PS1 files in the OS?
MCSA, MCSE
More...