General Powershell Notes

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Powershell Version

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$PSVersionTable

Import Excel Spreadsheets

[3]This will save the hassle of converting to CSV all the time.

Install-Module ImportExcel

Import-Excel '.\test.xlsx' -StartRow 3 -EndRow 5 -StartColumne 2 -EndColumne 4

NTFS Permissions

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Get-Command –Module NTFSSecurity
Get-NTFSAccess -path .\Contacts
add-ntfsaccess -path .\contacts -account first.last -accessrights read

Passing Passwords to PSSession

[6] Convert to secure string then call from file. This following pulls from stdin as a secure string (converts what you type), then converts that to something (I'm still new to Microsoft's ways of doing things), then stores as a file.

read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file C:\securestring.txt