Point taken. I was referring more to the practice of turning it off (the Bypass) because of the perceived support burden versus the ease of management of previous OS's. It's far easier to work with in W7 than it was in Vista.
John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, Security+ VSP4, VTSP4 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Trevor Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 9:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [powershell] Argument in favor of a non-unrestricted Execution Policy? John, I'd have to disagree with your analogy. UAC does provide an actual [significant] security benefit, because it cannot simply be bypassed by a process launched as a standard (non-admin) user. There are also many other "under the hood" security features provided by UAC, such as "Integrity Levels." I recommend watching this, if you want to blow your mind: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-2-Process-Explorer Cheers, Trevor Sullivan From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Cook Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 8:12 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [powershell] Argument in favor of a non-unrestricted Execution Policy? I'd liken it to the UAC in Vista, it was a well-intentioned security measure that everyone wanted to bypass. Eventually it was made more user friendly, we can only hope it goes this way in PoSh. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, Security+ VSP4, VTSP4 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Stang Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 8:46 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [powershell] Argument in favor of a non-unrestricted Execution Policy? Agreed. Restricted is useless. I'm sure developers are all gung ho about signing their 1000 line script masterpieces, but as a sysadmin, signing scripts is too onerous for my 10-20 line throw together scripts to solve an immediate problem. Unrestricted is the way to go. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Trevor Sullivan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hey folks, Can anyone make a specific and compelling argument for why the PowerShell execution policy should be configured to anything *except* "unrestricted? In other words, is there any *solid* reason why one of these values should be configured instead? * RemoteSigned * AllSigned * Restricted As best I can tell, there is no apparent benefit of configuring one of the above, bulleted items, since you can simply call PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass to work around it. 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