WDACConfig Module v.0.2.7 #160

HotCakeX · 2023-11-29T19:02:01Z

What's Changed

Added VS Code workspace file to offer easy debugging of the module.
Implemented a lot of best practices in the code to make it safer, faster and better.
Invoke-WDACSimulation is now a lot faster and supports more file rules.
Added progress bar to Invoke-WDACSimulation. More cmdlets will have it in the future.
Added verbose messages all over the module. Use the common parameter -Verbose with each cmdlet to get extra messages about what's happening under the hood.
Changed a lot of messages that used be displayed with -Debug parameter to be displayed when -Verbose is used.
Improved Windows build number detection
Bumped required PowerShell version to 7.4.0 due to the new features implemented.
Completely restructured and reengineered the WDACConfig module
Increased the required version for SignTool.exe to 10.0.22621.2428 which is available in the latest SDK

Improved Windows build number detection Improved variable types Improved error messages Increased required PowerShell version for the module

This update uses SYSTEM account's well known SID to create the scheduled task that keeps the Microsoft recommended driver block rules updated quickly

Strictly defined a lot of variable types. Added some comments, Increased module required version.

Strictly defined more variable types and improved functions in the resources file for better readability Added more comments to the code

The Preloader.ps1 is preloaded prior to loading the module to make sure Admin privs are present

Using global variables to set the URLs in a unified place

Also added verbose message to Update-Self function

elliot-huffman · 2023-12-15T15:59:57Z

WDACConfig/WDACConfig Module Files/Shared/New-SnapBackGuarantee.psm1

+    [CmdletBinding()]
+    Param(
+        [parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
+        [System.IO.DirectoryInfo]$Location


This parameter needs to be renamed to Path according to PowerShell best practices.

HotCakeX added 3 commits November 10, 2023 08:51

Quality of Life improvements

8153091

Improved Windows build number detection Improved variable types Improved error messages Increased required PowerShell version for the module

Updated the task scheduling creation

9b4f940

This update uses SYSTEM account's well known SID to create the scheduled task that keeps the Microsoft recommended driver block rules updated quickly

Fixed the OS build version

02f1ddb

HotCakeX added the Enhancement 💯 New feature or request label Nov 29, 2023

HotCakeX self-assigned this Nov 29, 2023

HotCakeX added 25 commits November 29, 2023 10:45

Variable type definitions and comments

0bd3bfa

Strictly defined a lot of variable types. Added some comments, Increased module required version.

More improvements to the variable types

dbfd9d0

Strictly defined more variable types and improved functions in the resources file for better readability Added more comments to the code

improvements to the code style

2af515e

improved parameters with best practices

846553a

parameter improvements

0cb3fab

param improvements to the GCI

90b0846

param improvements

0ea3746

improved params according to best practices

5f88fe6

Improved params best practices

4e8ace4

Improved params of Rename-Item

abe73e5

Improved Write-Host params

f5ac75d

Improved params of Test-Path

c90262c

Update New-WDACConfig.psm1

63f76a7

Improved all cmdlet param types

4d3a7cd

Added VS code workspace for easy debugging

4f3e5fd

best practice improvements to Confirm-WDACConfig

067c17c

Improved best practices for Argument completers

f0050ef

Improved the variable types and functions

adf4628

Removed unnecessary trailing white space

2d60879

Added new file to handle Admin priv requirement

8dc285e

The Preloader.ps1 is preloaded prior to loading the module to make sure Admin privs are present

Added missing position 0 param names to various cmdlets

884747d

Improvements to the help sections of the cmdlets

3d7c920

Improved in-line URLs

47dc9d4

Using global variables to set the URLs in a unified place

Improved best practices for Resources2.ps1

77a2994

Improvements to the functions

a41623b

HotCakeX added 26 commits December 12, 2023 00:34

Added verbose message to the new function

88a454c

Removed unused function from PSDefaultParameterValues

f1daa88

improved wording

0f0fbb7

Improved User configurations internals

7ac6b25

Update PSDefaultParameterValues.ps1

2553095

Improved new lines

6eb8165

Update Edit-WDACConfig.psm1

2f0195f

Update New-SnapBackGuarantee.psm1

cd545da

Fixed Signed/Unsigned parameter

a5fd26d

Changed output type of Get-BlockRulesMeta function

1d1351e

Minor fixes

748be5c

Improved variable names and User Config function

3cdf336

Improved Get-CommonWDACConfig function

782986d

Also added verbose message to Update-Self function

Make sure the OS is Windows

5f57cb8

Improvements to detecting parameters

ed276d2

Fixed parameter detection

aed3f51

Improved text colors

e22b619

Imported missing module in Get-BlockRulesMeta

1655a6d

Fixed a bug in Policynames detection

3da6f57

Improved cmdlet parameters

fa90256

Fixed Get-BlockRulesMeta's output

d6d9592

Fixed double parameter names

e2b8c4c

Improved verbosity of New-DenyWDACConfig

c4cd70a

Removed trailing whitespaces

d26dd77

Changed a bunch of Debug messages to Verbose

c50cdeb

Final optimizations before release of v0.2.7

446a2ae

HotCakeX marked this pull request as ready for review December 12, 2023 21:53

HotCakeX merged commit 7ba29ee into main Dec 12, 2023
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HotCakeX deleted the WDACConfig.v.0.2.7 branch December 12, 2023 21:59

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WDACConfig Module v.0.2.7 #160

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