Lee Holmes | Posts

2024

Monitoring T CrB's Magnitude

Sep 11

Reverse Engineering the Hiboy Scooter BTLE Protocol

Aug 10

May 25

APL's Demoscene

Feb 24

Exploring Teams' Json Transcript

Feb 2

Security Risks of Postman

Jan 29

leeholm16 in LNK file forensic artifacts

Jan 14

2022

Installing PowerShell on Steam Deck

Sep 21

2021

Watchy is the Arduino Project You've Been Looking For

Nov 2

Precision Computing Turns 20!

Sep 4

Powershell Cookbook 4th Edition Now Available!

Jul 6

Powershell Pocket Reference 3rd Edition Now Available!

May 10

Data Exfiltration via Mouse Wiggles

May 4

Optimizing CSS Coverage with Powershell

Apr 30

Statique: Simple Self-Hosted Comments for Static Websites

Apr 27

BinShred - Parsing Arbitrary Binary Data in PowerShell

Apr 6

Using Bloom Filters to Efficient Filter Out "Known Good"

Mar 24

2020

Resolving error Intune "The sync could not be initiated (0x80190190)"

Oct 8

Work Simulator 2020

Jun 28

List of InfoSec Cognitive Biases

Apr 15

Client IP Address Disclosure in various consumer mail servers

Apr 2

2019

Searching for Content in XOR "Encrypted" Data

Dec 10

Star Trek TOS Science, Engineering, Command Embroidery Patterns

Sep 29

Dragon Ball Z Logo Embroidery Pattern

Sep 29

PowerShell Logo Embroidery Pattern

Sep 29

WebSockets from Scratch

Aug 13

Efficiently Generating Python Hash Collisions

Jul 23

Extracting Forensic Script Content from PowerShell Process Dumps

Jan 17

Extracting Activity History from PowerShell Process Dumps

Jan 4

2018

Producer Consumer Parallelism in PowerShell

Sep 5

Scour: Fast, Personal, Local Content Searches

Aug 28

Creating a Good Security Conference CFP Submission

Jul 16

XOR is Not as Fancy as Malware Authors Think

Apr 9

2017

Part-of-Speech Tagging with PowerShell

Dec 20

Automatic Word Clustering: K-Means Clustering for Words

Nov 20

Easily Search for Vanity Ham Call Signs

Nov 3

Searching for Content in Base-64 Strings

Sep 21

TripleAgent: Even Zeroer-Tay Code Injection and Persistence Technique

Mar 27

Adding a Let's Encrypt Certificate to an Azure-Hosted Website

Mar 21

Why is SeDebugPrivilege enabled in PowerShell?

Mar 20

Detecting and Preventing PowerShell Downgrade Attacks

Mar 17

Differences between Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015

Feb 27

TimeJournal: Time Profiling for Humans

Feb 10

Setting Visual Studio Code to Auto-Update in the Background

Feb 3

Interactive Rosetta Stone Explorer

Jan 4

2016

Downloading Plain-Text Wikipedia

Dec 12

More Detecting Obfuscated PowerShell

Oct 22

Fortune 500 PowerPoint Fodder

Apr 21

2015

Fixing carriage jam and 0x61011beb error on HP Photosmart Premium

Nov 15

Detecting Obfuscated PowerShell

Nov 13

Launching Modern Applications from the Command Line

Oct 30

ScanSnap ix500 Handwriting Recognition

Apr 10

Adding custom confirmation to commands

Mar 28

The Wonderful World of PowerShell Filtering and Globbing

Jan 23

Extracting Tables from PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest

Jan 5

2014

Maslow's Hierarchy of Security Controls

Dec 9

Saving yourself from Sender's Remorse with Outlook

Dec 4

Repairing a NatureBright SunTouch Plus

Nov 30

Absolute Positioning in Autodesk 123D Design

Nov 27

Playing with Classes in PowerShell v5 Preview

Oct 9

Creating an Easy PowerShell Uptime Monitor

Aug 5

Arvixe Status Report

Apr 24

Handle Hitch Knot for Pulling Thin Rope

Apr 19

Gregg Shorthand from a regular QWERTY Computer Keyboard

Apr 4

Fixing KeePass' Slow Startup Performance

Apr 4

Texting Yourself Sports Alerts with PowerShell

Feb 21

2013

Using PowerShell to Compare / Diff Files

Nov 30

Getting Started with Guitar

Oct 3

Who's in Your Email Social Network?

Aug 29

More Packet Hacking with PowerShell - UDP Manipulation

Aug 16

Packet Hacking with PowerShell - AKA Mass Defcon Pwnage

Aug 15

Redacting Sensitive Information with PowerShell

Aug 12

What is OutputType?

Jun 25

Removing Insecure Wireless Connections with PowerShell

Jun 7

Creating Add-ons, Plugins, and Tools for the PowerShell ISE

Apr 5

Hacking Pi with PowerShell

Mar 16

ScanSnap ix500 Scanning into Excel

Mar 9

ScanSnap ix500 Scanning Speed and Document Processing Workflow

Mar 7

Announcing PowerShell Cookbook Online Access

Jan 26

PowerShell Cookbook V3 Now Available

Jan 22

Resolving Adobe Reader Error 1328 - Updated by Other Means

Jan 14

2012

Online Backups - Now Cheap and Easy

Dec 31

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga Review - Three Weeks In

Nov 16

Fixing Touch Screen Delays / Lost Input on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga

Oct 31

What's New in the PowerShell Cookbook V3?

Oct 11

PowerShell Cookbook v3 Beta Available

Oct 10

Bash-like Tab Completion in PowerShell

Sep 14

Scripts in the PowerShell Cookbook?

Sep 11

'Whilst' keyword in PowerShell

Aug 28

A Poor Man's Profiler with PowerShell and CDB

Aug 23

Sea Foam really works

Jul 17

Queueing Theory for the Busy PowerShell Admin

Apr 26

MakerBot Replicator Rainbow Color Pack Group Buy

Apr 17

How to Download an Entire WordPress Blog

Apr 1

A Celebration, if You Can Figure it Out

Mar 17

PowerShell Book Reviews

Mar 11

2011

The PowerShell Pay-it-Forward Award

Nov 10

Breaking Hash Codes - Part I

Nov 7

Ubisoft Rocksmith Review

Oct 26

PowerShell Wallpapers

Sep 26

Developing for an International Audience

Sep 9

Enforcing Single-User Access to PowerShell Remoting

Aug 24

Organizational Awareness with PowerShell

Jun 24

WMRRA Taste of Racing

May 3

Morser - Keyboard Morse Input Device

Apr 8

PowerShell and HTML5 Prototype

Apr 1

An Introduction to Hashing and Hash Codes

Feb 7

A very touching final goodbye

Jan 13

Setting up a Small Business / Personal Website

Jan 12

2010

Feedback is Your Greatest Gift

Dec 4

Is Bing Smarter Than You?

Oct 20

PowerShell Cookbook Scripts Available Everywhere

Sep 28

Adjusting Token Privileges in PowerShell

Sep 24

Interview on the PowerScripting Podcast

Sep 14

And the Winner is - Arvixe

Sep 8

Sep 8

PowerShell Cookbook – O’Reilly EBook Deal of the Day

Aug 27

PowerShell Cookbook V2 Now Available

Aug 16

Aurora Monitoring with PowerShell

Aug 4

Hang Drum for Propellerheads Reason

Jun 17

Which Files Support Authenticode Signatures?

Jun 3

Open PowerShell Cookbook Beta Available Online

Mar 19

HTML Agility Pack Rocks Your Screen Scraping World

Mar 5

Responding to USB Devices in PowerShell

Mar 2

PowerShell Hotkey to Pause Pandora

Feb 26

Looking for Reviewers for PowerShell Cookbook v2

Feb 24

Delayed Screen Captures in PowerShell

Jan 18

Where is Rename-Computer?

Jan 13

An Exercise in De-Obfuscation

Jan 4

2009

Dec 18

Hex Dumper in PowerShell

Nov 23

Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting

Nov 20

Mathematical Pumpkins

Oct 29

Removing Deleted Items Left by the iPhone

Oct 28

Scripting Network and TCP Connections in PowerShell

Oct 28

PowerShell Cryptography Library

Oct 19

PowerShell RPN Calculator

Oct 12

PowerScripting Podcast 85 - Eventing, Transactions, Security

Sep 28

PowerShell Cookbook Now Available on iPhone

Sep 25

PowerShell equivalent of NET HELPMSG

Sep 15

More advanced HTTP scripting: Facebook Photo Album Downloader

Sep 4

Auto-Updating With No Reboot

Jul 11

Jul 6

Get-Help -Online

Jun 9

Things more likely to kill you than Swine Flu

Apr 29

PowerShell Audio Sequencer

Apr 20

More Tied Variables in PowerShell

Mar 26

Want to Influence the PowerShell Cookbook V2?

Mar 12

Moving and Deleting Really Locked Files in PowerShell

Feb 17

Making Perfect Change with the Fewest Coins

Feb 10

More PowerShell Syntax Highlighting

Feb 3

PowerShell Script Encrypter

Feb 2

Scripting WinDbg with PowerShell

Jan 21

PowerShell P/Invoke Walkthrough

Jan 19

DateTime Casts are Language Primitives

Jan 13

Should I Refinance? PowerShell the Financial Advisor

Jan 10

2008

Showing Calendars in your OOF Messages

Dec 3

How to get PowerShell Swag

Nov 25

Introduction to PowerShell Presentation

Oct 28

Supporting Additional View Details

Oct 20

Solo Long Cross-Country

Sep 9

PowerShell 'Suggestion Mode'

Sep 8

Admins, Developers, and Constructive Feedback

Sep 3

Pain is Temporary

Aug 29

Client-free PowerShell Remoting - a Live Mesh Command Line

Aug 8

Workaround: The OS handle's position is not what FileStream expected

Jul 30

PowerShell Execution Policies in Standard Images

Jul 24

First Solo - and a Ripped Shirt to Prove It

Jun 25

Importing and Exporting Credentials in PowerShell

Jun 4

Flight Training, Episode 2

Jun 4

PowerShell's Noble Blue

Jun 1

Generating Code Coverage from PowerShell Scripts

May 20

First Steps in Flight

May 6

PowerShell Crash - Your Help Needed

Apr 1

BgShell - Background Shell

Mar 28

Realtime Syntax Highlighting in your PowerShell Console

Feb 12

2007

PowerShell Cookbook Sample Chapter: Environmental Awareness

Dec 17

PowerShell's -EQ Operator: Reference Equality vs Value Equality

Dec 5

Guitar Hero 3 ... for Drums

Nov 28

PowerShell Cookbook vs PowerShell in Action

Nov 21

3rd Parties and PowerShell Execution Policies

Nov 20

Laughing babies are contagious

Nov 9

Syntax Highlighting in PowerShell

Nov 7

Will it Pipe? Brevity and Readability

Nov 2

PowerShell Cookbook Now Available

Oct 30

The perils of BCC

Oct 24

Build Instructions for the DIY Cat Feeder

Oct 23

Interacting with SQL Databases in PowerShell: Invoke-SqlCommand

Oct 19

Managing INI files with PowerShell

Oct 2

Using PowerShell and PsExec to invoke expressions on remote computers

Oct 2

Removing Certificates from the Certificate Store

Aug 23

Cmdlets vs Functions

Jul 24

Secret SQL Escape Characters

Jul 20

Invoking Generic Methods on Non-Generic Classes in PowerShell

Jun 19

Obfuscated PowerShell

Jun 6

Why Another 3rd Party Book?

May 18

PowerShell: The Definitive Guide Rough Cut now Available

May 10

Interested in being a Technical Reviewer?

May 10

Discovering Registry Settings - PowerShell and Process Monitor

May 5

Apr 27

You Can Write C / Assembly / Perl in any Language

Apr 26

Adding Double-Tap Tab Completion to PowerShell

Apr 13

Introducing: New PowerShell Language Enhancements

Apr 1

How do you get rid of the Judge?

Mar 28

Advanced HTTP / ASP.Net Scripting with PowerShell

Mar 26

Converting C# to PowerShell

Mar 19

Getting Things Done – Outlook Task Automation with PowerShell

Mar 1

Calling a Webservice from PowerShell

Feb 28

PowerShell in Action Now Available

Feb 27

Controlling Robots with PowerShell

Feb 20

A Different Kind of Management Script

Feb 12

Customize Even More with AutoHotkey

Feb 10

PowerShell Credentials and GetNetworkCredential()

Jan 25

Getting Better Gas Mileage

Jan 25

Redirecting Binary Output in PowerShell

Jan 18

Import Quicken’s QIF files into PowerShell

Jan 16

PowerShell books becoming available

Jan 12

Determining your 401(k) Contributions

Jan 12

Break your Writer’s Block

Jan 11

Filtering on the Certificate Provider

Jan 9

2006

Outlook Automation in PowerShell - Calendar Scrubbing

Dec 14

TechTalk Interview Posted

Dec 11

Getting Started with PowerShell

Dec 8

Add Custom Methods and Properties to Types in PowerShell

Dec 4

PowerShell Prompt Here PowerToy

Nov 20

Download the Official Windows PowerShell 1.0 Release!

Nov 14

A New Virtual Earth Mashup in Born

Nov 9

Writing PowerShell Cmdlets vs. Writing PowerShell Providers

Nov 1

Load a Custom DLL from PowerShell

Oct 27

Email Quoting and Wrapping in 59 Bytes

Oct 25

Get-HelpMatch - Search Help (Apropos) in PowerShell

Oct 22

Counting Lines of Source Code in PowerShell

Oct 18

Updated: PowerShell Profile Locations Rationale

Oct 5

Great PowerShell Screencasts

Oct 3

DasBlog Upgrade to 1.9 Complete!

Oct 3

O'Reilly PowerShell Quick Reference Now Available

Sep 29

Exploring the Glide Path of PowerShell

Sep 27

SecureStrings and Plain Text in PowerShell

Sep 7

PowerShell range operator for other types

Sep 7

Exchange team demonstrates their PowerShell integration

Sep 6

Value types vs Reference types

Sep 5

Terry Zink’s Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services blog

Sep 2

Coming Soon: Windows PowerShell Pocket Guide

Sep 2

Job support in PowerShell

Aug 31

Replacing Telnet.exe (now removed from Vista)

Aug 30

Scott Hanselman’s 2006 list of Ultimate Developer and Power User Tools

Aug 30

DIY Cat Feeder and Water Dispenser

Aug 22

Creating Generic Types in PowerShell

Aug 18

Accepting Pipeline Input in PowerShell Scripts and Functions

Aug 15

Back – and Desperately Avoiding Jet Lag

Aug 14

More P/Invoke in PowerShell

Jul 25

Get the Owner of a Process in PowerShell – P/Invoke and Ref/Out Parameters

Jul 21

Set-Location, and [Environment]::CurrentDirectory

Jul 18

PowerShell Solves a Mystery

Jul 17

How Do I Search the Registry for a Value in PowerShell?

Jul 12

“Simple Where” as a Where-Object Shortcut

Jul 5

Current Working Directory with PowerShell and .Net Calls

Jun 26

Note Trainer - Musical Staff Trainer

Jun 17

Precision Computing Turns One

Jun 8

Cafe Artigiano in Vancouver

Jun 6

SecureStrings in PowerShell

Jun 1

How do I learn the Dvorak keyboard layout?

May 24

Shortcut to Select the Next Edit Box in Internet Explorer

May 16

Nothing solves everything – PowerShell and other technologies

May 11

Accessing Environment Variables in PowerShell

May 10

Running PowerShell Scripts from Cmd.exe

May 5

Blogging From PowerShell - Editing Posts With the MetaWeblog API

May 5

Blogging From PowerShell – Retrieving Posts With the MetaWeblog API

May 3

Jim Launches His PowerShell Blog

May 2

Abhishek Launches His PowerShell Blog

May 1

Score One for Corporate Transparency

Apr 27

The Story Behind the Naming and Location of PowerShell Profiles

Apr 26

Monad Evolves to Windows PowerShell

Apr 25

Using msh.exe interactively from within other programs

Apr 20

Breaking Open the dir-LIVE Script

Apr 20

Monad Team Foundation Source Control Provider Now Available

Apr 7

HOWTO: Win any contest by being the only one competing

Apr 6

Monad Breaking Change - Alignment with Live.com strategy

Apr 1

PowerShell the Oracle -- Instant Answers from your Prompt

Mar 28

HanselMinutes talks about Monad

Mar 23

Enjoy the First Day of Spring

Mar 20

MS Connect - Please provide bugs and feedback on Monad!

Mar 16

Shoe tying revolution! Ian's Shoelace Site

Mar 14

A 440 Tuning MP3

Mar 13

How to get Monad Training?

Mar 11

Source Code and the Monad Community

Mar 7

Seattle Commute Times Visualilizer

Mar 2

Another big Monad blogger splash

Feb 28

Introduction to Cryptography

Feb 28

Pithy and Readable? Do tell!

Feb 22

MSN Search, without the carpal tunnel syndrome

Feb 16

MSH Logo – allowing users to extend its functionality

Feb 14

It doesn't matter if search engines lie

Feb 11

Caching credentials for administrative tasks

Feb 10

MSH Logo – A GUI Disaster

Feb 8

Gregg Shorthand Quick Reference

Feb 8

MSH Logo - our design strategy

Jan 26

Would you like to contribute to "Monad Hacks"?

Jan 23

Awesome AJAX web-based telnet application

Jan 18

How do I easily load assemblies, when LoadWithPartialName has been deprecated?

Jan 17

Now THAT is obfuscated!

Jan 14

Monad hosting, an introduction

Jan 14

New York Times follow-up on Brooklyn Camera Dealers

Jan 11

Question: Do you _not_ read the newsgroup?

Jan 11

Add a high-fidelity music input source to your car

Jan 9

Neat Integration of CodeSmith, MSBuild, Monad and Windows Workflow

Jan 3

2005

30 Year Vintage Computer Collection on EBay

Dec 19

burn-console: Optimized, and Ready For Marshmallows

Dec 18

Library for Inline C# in MSH

Dec 14

Scripting with the Microsoft Shell -- Now on Script Center

Dec 13

Accessing Performance Counters in PowerShell

Dec 9

burn-console Part III: The Most Efficient MSH Script

Dec 7

burn-console Digression: An MSH Script Profiler Part 2

Dec 5

A Legal Take on the JC Penny Price Gouging

Dec 2

burn-console digression: an MSH script profiler

Dec 1

burn-console.msh Part II - A working implementation

Nov 26

Cracking Safes With Thermal Imaging

Nov 24

Burn-Console: A Fire-Effect Demo in MSH

Nov 22

First Monad Book Soon on Sale

Nov 21

Experimenting with Monad’s MshHostRawUserInterface Class

Nov 17

parse-textObject – AWK with a vengeance.

Nov 14

Customer Service at WaWaDigital – “I’m going to break your neck.”

Nov 11

Brilliant Idea for Solving the Danging Pigs Syndrome

Nov 8

Like Fight Club, but with Piano

Nov 6

Cool Memory Techniques - List Memorization

Nov 4

Selecting an execution policy -- get-help about_signing.

Oct 31

PDC videos now available

Oct 27

Get ready to learn Regular Expressions!

Oct 25

Jeffrey Rocks Channel 9 Again

Oct 20

DESCRIPT.ION support in Monad -- Part 3

Oct 13

DESCRIPT.ION Support in Monad - Part 2

Oct 11

Add File Descriptions to your Directory Listings – DESCRIPT.ION in Monad

Oct 10

Monad documentation pack now available

Oct 3

Helpful overview of Monad

Oct 2

jaMSH: Jeff’s Alternative Monad Shell Host

Sep 30

In Defense of Verbosity

Sep 27

Want to Help us Decorate? Your Pictures Wanted!

Sep 24

Welcome to the Monad family, and thoughts on the PDC

Sep 21

New Monad Download Available! (Monad Beta 2)

Sep 12

Unit Testing in PowerShell – a Link Parser

Sep 5

PDC -- TLN303 Monad: Advanced Command Line Scripting

Aug 31

Another Benefit of Monad's WinFX Membership -- SDK Documentation

Aug 30

Monad team blog now up!

Aug 26

Cracking Software to Run as Non-Admin

Aug 26

A new perspective … from 13,000 feet.

Aug 23

Desperately seeking C#? Desperately seeking Prospects!

Aug 17

Demonstration of Monad's Security Features

Aug 16

Loving DasBlog 1.8

Aug 12

Monad Technet Webcast Pt. 2

Aug 10

Monad? Astroturfing?

Aug 8

Monad and the "First Vista Virus"

Aug 4

Reminder: Monad Technet Webcast

Aug 3

A Download Manager in MSH

Aug 3

Ideas to Cut Off Duplicate Questions in Forums

Jul 31

Another way to get Monad -- WinFX

Jul 29

System Administrator Appreciation Day

Jul 29

Command-line shortcut for repetitive operations

Jul 28

"May I please test Longhorn Beta 1?"

Jul 22

Regular Expressions in Monad

Jul 19

Param statement, and new-object

Jul 12

Monad Hosting Part II -- Stop acting like cmd.exe!

Jul 9

A History Browsing Prompt

Jul 8

** WARNING ** MSH may make you _too_ efficient

Jul 1

Working with the new Monad beta -- getting settled in

Jul 1

Jeffrey Snover's Monad TechEd Presentation ... now by Webcast

Jun 28

Monad, RSS, XML, and other cool tricks

Jun 28

Creating SQL's "join"-like functionality in MSH

Jun 22

MSH and YubNub -- A community commandline

Jun 20

Fixing the headphones on a Nomad Zen Xtra

Jun 18

Updated Monad (Microsoft SHell) released to BetaPlace!

Jun 17

A Web-enabled, Monad front end: Monad hosting.

Jun 17

Customizing your environment -- Aliases, and Dot-Sourcing

Jun 14

Getting started - customize your prompt

Jun 12

Welcome, and the project code-named Monad

Jun 10

2004

Webcam Control - Use a Webcam to Automate your PC

Jul 16

PerfCompare - A C# micro-benchmarking and performance analysis tool

Jul 11

Incremental Rubik's Cube Solution

Jan 26

2003

Jun 8

GPS Tracker - GPS Track Log Viewer

Apr 6

Sierpinski Triangle Fractal

Mar 3

SVG Editor and Painter

Jan 31

Jan 31

Catch the Ladybugs!

Jan 31

2002

New Graduate Resume

Jun 1

Jun 1

2001

GPG and Password / Internet Security

Jan 31

2000

The Essential Unix / Linux Reference

Sep 8

1998

Writing Crib Sheet

Jan 1

The Search for Better Vision

Jan 1

The Polar Vortex

Jan 1

The Hubble Space Telescope

Jan 1

The First Dance

Jan 1

Jan 1

Jan 1

Jan 1

Breaking Bad News

Jan 1

Astronomical Simulation

Jan 1

Astronomical Image Processing

Jan 1