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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition
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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Third Edition

by Thomas Lee
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
542 pages
10h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Establishing a code-signing environment

In some environments, it can be important to know that a program or PowerShell script has not been modified since it was released. You can achieve this with PowerShell scripts by digitally signing the script and by enforcing an execution policy of AllSigned or RemoteSigned.

After you digitally sign your script, you can detect whether any changes were made in the script since it was signed. Using PowerShell's execution policy, you can force PowerShell to test the script to ensure the digital signature is still valid and to only run scripts that succeed. You can set PowerShell to do this either for all scripts (you set the execution policy to AllSigned) or only for scripts you downloaded from a remote site ...

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