Month: October 2018

  • Disassemble Powershell CMDlets

    Hey community, I am Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and with today’s blog I show you, how to look behind the implementation of Powershell CMDLets. Ever wondered how the Microsoft guys code their powershell Commands? Ever wanted to take a peek at the implementation of a Powershell command? “You take the red pill…

  • Making file type associations enterprise ready

    You may have noticed already that file type association has changed fundamentally in Windows 10. It is no longer possible for Administrators to set the default application for a certain file type dynamically. The only remaining option is, to create an XML file containing the desired FTA’s and import it using DISM (only valid for…

  • PCRDump

    When running into Bitlocker recovery issues I always used the tools PCPTool (written by Stefan Thom) and Win7PCRv2 (actually I couldn’t figure out who coded this one) to dump the TPM PCR registers. On some devices with newer Win 10 builds (1709 onwards) the tools were throwing errors. PCPTool complained about a too small buffer…