Managing security on PowerShell scripts
Due to the powerful capabilities of PowerShell, maintaining a secure environment is important. Executing scripts from untrustworthy sources could damage data on your system and possibly spread viruses or other malicious code. To deal with this threat, Microsoft has implemented Execution Policies to limit what scripts can do.
Note
The execution policies only limit what can be performed by scripts, modules, and profiles, these policies do not limit what commands are executed in the interactive runtime.
How to do it...
In this recipe, we will view the system's current execution policy and change it to suit various needs. To do this, carry out the following steps:
- To find the system's current execution policy, open ...
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