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Nathaniel Webb (ArtisanByteCrafter)

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• 3 min read

Quick ProTip: Negotiate TLS Connections In Powershell With A Minimum TLS Version Requirement

Synopsis This is a quick post to highlight the nuances of Powershell and protocol management in regard to TLS connections. If you’ve ever attempted to make a secure connection (for example, an API request) to a service with certain net security requirements, you might have run into this problem. While TLS is negotiated at the highest level existing on both the server and the client, the minimum protocols defined by Powershell may include ones that you explicitly do not want.

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Universal Dashboard Templates – Scaffolding a New UD Project with Powershell

All code from this article is freely available on Github as a template repository. Just click “Use this template” on the repository page here: https://github.com/ArtisanByteCrafter/ud-template Index What are the advantages of project scaffolding How does ud-template work The Why Why should you consider scaffolding a new project? While we’re here, what exactly is scaffolding? Much like the term’s origin a project scaffold is meant to build a consistent framework and design that you can use to build your projects with.

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Learn To Use Verbose Output Streams In Your Pester Tests

I’m going to file this under “Either I’m a genius, or there’s a much better way and everyone knows it except for me.” I recently began adding a suite of Pester tests to one of my projects and I found myself needing to mock some unit tests against a particular function that would modify a variable based on the parameter specified. Since all the functions I write nowadays are considered advanced functions (and yours should be too, they’re free!

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Secure Your Powershell Session with JEA and Constrained Endpoints

Index What is a Constrained Endpoint and Why Would I Need One? Setup and Configuration Using our Endpoint What is a constrained endpoint and why would I need one? Powershell constrained endpoints are a means of interacting with powershell in a manner consistent with the principal of least privilege. In Powershell terms, this is referred to as Just-Enough-Administration, or JEA. JEA is very well documented, so this won’t simply be repeating everything those references detail.

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Running Universal Dashboard with Ubuntu and Nginx (With HTTPS!)

A basic UniversalDashboard running on nginx Index Prerequisites Configuration HTTPS (Optional) Prerequisites For this writeup, I’m using Ubuntu 18.04. Software packages are geared toward using that version. First, we’ll need to install our dependencies There are several ways to install Powershell core on Ubuntu. I recommend Microsoft’s documentation for ubuntu 18.04 here Once installed, enter Powershell and install the UniversalDashboard module. This will use the community edition. pwsh PS> Install-Module UniversalDashboard.

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