October 2019 – Undocumented Features

Identity

Update to PwnCheck – HaveIBeenPwned Query Tool

Posted on October 10, 2019October 10, 2019
by Aaron Guilmette

I got caught up in doing this, and now it’s 3:45AM. C’est la vie! My loss of sleep is your threat analysis gain.

I’ve made several updates to the PwnCheck tool (used to query the HaveIBeenPwned.com database).… [ Continue reading ]

Personal

Creating an Array with Headers and Columns from a string using [PSCustomObject]

Posted on October 9, 2019October 13, 2019
by Aaron Guilmette

Today, I was updating a script I wrote a while ago, and I wanted to streamline the processing loops once input was received. This particular script took parameters for:

Identity (as an email address or UserPrincipalName)
CSV (with either no header or a header of UserPrincipalName)
Target environment type (either Active Directory or Office 365/Azure AD, which return a UserPrincipalName property with Get-ADUser or Get-AzureADUser)

I had gone the “easy” route and just done a simple If/Then to see if the Identity parameter had been passed, and if it had, run a separate chunk of code (which made troubleshooting or updates much harder since I had to keep two branches of the code synced when I made updates).… [ Continue reading ]

Information

Decrypting Credentials Stored in Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) .rdg

Posted on October 3, 2019October 3, 2019
by Aaron Guilmette

Today, while logging into a Windows Server via my favorite RDP tool (RDCMan), I was faced with the “Your password has expired” prompt. No worries, just enter my password and change it.

Except for the part where the password has been saved and I neglected to add it to my password manager.… [ Continue reading ]