This post will show you how to use registry keys to test, set and remove target versions for Windows Feature Updates. This allows you to prevent Windows 10 or 11 from updating past your configured limit.
This post and the WinRE patching script on Martin's blog at https://manima.de are the result of a collaboration between Martin and I to help mutually improve our various efforts towards patching CVE-2022-41099.
This article relates to CVE-2022-41099 which is a vulnerability in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) which could allow a successful attacker to bypass the BitLocker Device Encryption feature on the system storage device. An attacker with physical access to the target could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to encrypted data.
This post takes a snippet from the SMSAgent Blog and adds some additional magic along with two new custom functions.
If you're a Windows 10 or 11 user you'll be familiar with the toast notifications that appear in the bottom right of your screen. These are a great way to get a quick message to the user without interrupting what they're doing. In this article we'll look at how to send a toast notification from PowerShell.
We could use the excellent BurntToast PowerShell module to send a toast notification, but in the interests of reducing the number of third-party modules installed on client machines we'll be using the underlying .NET APIs directly as our needs are fairly simple.
Sending toast notifications is fairly simple once you get to grips with the underlying XML schema but we want our Toasts to be next-level so we're going to make them