Greetings All in the PDC world, I am starting my GCWN Gold certification, and the paper is going to focus on doing assessments of a Windows environment using the PowerShell.
While I am not a PowerShell guru, I figured this would be a great way to emerse myself in the PowerShell. So the first big stumbling block I have run into, is to assess an AD environment you need to install the Active Directory Web Service (ADWS) and/or Active Directory Management Gateway Service (ADMGS). When doing assessments I don't like to ask customers to install software agents, if you will, to support the assessment. My questions to the mailing list are two fold: 1. Is installing the ADWS & ADMGS truly necessary, and if so are these services commonly installed? So, asking the customer to install the service would not be unreasonable, or I should find the service installed all ready. 2. Not counting the Quest Snapins, because I already have them installed, are their any other PowerShell plugins that a security professional or windows administrator would need to install. Please keep in-mind the focus of the paper is the AD and IIS, so the plugins for exchange and VM Ware, while very much necessary for a lot of things, I am focusing on just AD and IIS for the research paper. Thanks Cody ________________________________ Note: This message and any attachments is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, legally privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the original sender immediately by telephone or return email and destroy or delete this message along with any attachments immediately.
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