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PowerShell for Office 365
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PowerShell for Office 365

by Martin Machado
July 2017
Beginner
222 pages
5h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Code signing

PowerShell's execution policy adds another layer of security to administrators. The default setting prevents executing scripts in order to be able to support automation, modules, or complex scripts. There are two other settings, that allow us to run scripts as long as they are signed.

Prevention of code execution is not the ultimate goal of these execution policy settings. A malicious agent may simply copy the remote script and execute it by copying and pasting the code in a PowerShell Terminal. The signed script's goal is to guarantee that the source of it is known and trusted and that the contents of the script code have not been tampered with.

Being able to validate the signature of a script allows some flexibility, such as ...

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