PowerShell Assessment

[Cody Dumont <CDumont () nwnit com>]

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

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