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How to Export a certificate from a certificate store using PowerShell?

Chirag Nagrekar
Chirag Nagrekar
Updated on 18-Mar-2021 4K+ Views

To export or download a certificate from the certificate store using PowerShell, we need to use the command Export-Certificate.First, you need to get the certificate details from the store. If you know the thumbprint, you can directly get the certificate details using the thumbprint and then use that details to export the certificate.Example$cert = (Get-ChildItem  Cert:\LocalMachine\My\43E6035D120EBE9ECE8100E8F38B85A9F) Export-Certificate -Cert $cert -Type CERT -FilePath C:\Temp\Mycert.cerIn the above example, we are exporting the certificate from the LocalMachine -> Personal Store. You can choose a different path. Here, the certificate would be exported to the C:\temp\MyCert.cer. You can use the different types like P7B, SST to export the certificate. Alternatively, you ...

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How to create a self-signed certificate using PowerShell?

Chirag Nagrekar
Chirag Nagrekar
Updated on 18-Mar-2021 5K+ Views

To create a self-signed certificate there are various methods like OpenSSL, IIS, PowerShell, etc. Here, we will see how we can create a self-signed certificate with PowerShell.To create a self-signed certificate with PowerShell, we need to use the New-SelfSignedCertificate command. When you create a self-signed certificate manually, you need to give few properties like DNSName, FriendlyName, Certificate start date, expiry date, Subject, a path of the certificate. Similarly, you can use those properties for this command to create it. Not all properties are mandatory.ExampleNew-SelfSignedCertificate `    -CertStoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\My `    -DnsName "testdomain.local" -VerboseOutputPSParentPath: Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Certificate::LocalMachine\My Thumbprint             ...

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How to create a dummy file of any size with PowerShell?

Chirag Nagrekar
Chirag Nagrekar
Updated on 18-Mar-2021 5K+ Views

To create any dummy file of having any size with PowerShell, we can use the below command.Example$f = new-object System.IO.FileStream c:\temp\test.dat, Create, ReadWrite $f.SetLength(50MB) $f.Close()The above command will create 50MB of Test.dat dummy file in the C:\temp. Such files are used for testing purposes.

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How to get the default Documents from the IIS site using PowerShell?

Chirag Nagrekar
Chirag Nagrekar
Updated on 18-Mar-2021 674 Views

To get the default documents stored on the IIS default website page, you can use the below command.ExampleGet-WebConfigurationProperty -Filter //defaultDocument/files/add    -PSPath 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name value `    | select valueOutputValue ----- Default.htm Default.asp index.htm index.html iisstart.htmTo check if the Default document contains a specific file, (Get-WebConfigurationProperty -Filter //defaultDocument/files/add -PSPath 'IIS:\Sites\Default Web Site' -Name value).value -contains 'iisstart.htm'The above command checks if the IIS default website contains any iisstart.htm on the default document page.You can also use another website instead of using 'Default Web site'. To get the default documents file at the IIS level, (Get-WebConfigurationProperty -Filter //defaultDocument/files/add -PSPath 'IIS:' ...

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How to copy only updated or newer files with PowerShell?

Chirag Nagrekar
Chirag Nagrekar
Updated on 18-Mar-2021 10K+ Views

To copy only updated or newer files with PowerShell, we can use Copy-Item with some logic in the script that to check if the files exist on the destination folder if not then copy that file and if yes then compare the timestamp and copy the latest file. This would be tricky because we need to write several lines of code for it.But Windows support xCopy utility which can directly copy the newer or updated files and this utility we can accommodate in PowerShell as well.xCopy uses a switch called /d. its actual syntax is, Syntax/d [:MM-DD-YYYY]This means if the date ...

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Golang Program to find the position of the rightmost set bit

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Updated on 17-Mar-2021 428 Views

ExamplesConsider n = 20(00010100)Now return log2(20 & -20) => 2+1 => 3Approach to solve this problemStep 1 − Define a method, where n and is an argument, return type is int.Step 2 − Return log2(n & -n)+1.Examplepackage main import (    "fmt"    "math"    "strconv" ) func FindRightMostSetBit(n int) int {    if (n & 1) != 0{       return 1    }    return int(math.Log2(float64(n & -n))) + 1 } func main(){    var n = 20    fmt.Printf("Binary of %d is: %s.", n, strconv.FormatInt(int64(n), 2))    fmt.Printf("Position of the rightmost set bit of the given number %d is %d.", n, FindRightMostSetBit(n)) }OutputBinary of 20 is: 10100. Position of the rightmost set bit of the given number 20 is 3.

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Golang Program to toggle the Kth of the given number n.

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Updated on 17-Mar-2021 248 Views

ExamplesConsider n = 20(00010100), k = 3.After toggling the kth bit of the given number: 00010000 => 16.Approach to solve this problemStep 1 − Define a method, where n and k would be the arguments, returns type is int.Step 2 − Perform AND operation with n ^ (1

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Golang program to check if k'th bit is set for a given number or not.

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Updated on 17-Mar-2021 2K+ Views

ExamplesConsider n = 20(00010100), k = 3So, the result after turning off the 3rd bit => 00010000 & (1

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Golang Program to turn on the k'th bit in a number.

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Updated on 17-Mar-2021 312 Views

Example For example consider n = 20(00010100), k = 4. So result after turning on 4th bit => 00010000 | (1

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Golang program to turn off the k'th bit in a number.

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Rishikesh Kumar Rishi
Updated on 17-Mar-2021 280 Views

ExampleConsider n = 20(00010100), k = 3 The result after turning off the 3rd bit => 00010000 & ^(1 16sApproach to solve this problemStep 1 − Define a method, where n and k would be the arguments, return type is int.Step 2 − Perform AND operation with n & ^(1

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