In a discussion on Technet, someone converted the PS script to EXE. No PS version dependancy at all. Alternative approach, arguably better portability. Discussion here:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Speculation-Control-e36f0050/view/Discussions/3 To trust or not trust, up to you. Output is identical (for me) as running PS commands. -- Mark From: Michael Leone <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: 01/18/2018 07:23 AM Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Can't run Powershell SpeculationControl check on Win 2008 R2 Sent by: <[email protected]> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: It hasn?t been validated on anything older than PSv3. <SIGH> We don't automatically install upgraded Powershell or WMF. Now, if I have to do so just to run this script, that would be an extra reboot. I'd probably have to import it into WSUS, and approve it for the next round of patches. Wish there was a utility I could use to verify remotely. I found references on using this script to do it, but that requires enabling PS Remoting first ... Here's a script that does check remotely. Again, PS-Remoting needs to be enabled, but I could probably do that via GPO ... https://github.com/vrdse/MeltdownSpectreReport Thanks
