Powershell is Awesome....well so far
I just recently started to mess around with MS Powershell and have found it very useful. As a Nessus Audit Writer, I'm able to perform checks like I could on linux/unix. Here is an example just one of items you can do with Powershell. Find file/drive shares that have the user 'Everyone' assigned to them PS C:>get-wmioject -namespace root\cimv2 -class win32_share | where-object {$_.path -ne ""} -erroraction silentlycontinue| get-acl | where-object {$_.accesstostring -match "everyone"} | format-list -property path,accesstostring Path : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\ AccessToString : Everyone Allow ReadAndExecute, Synchronize CREATOR OWNER Allow 268435456 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Allow FullControl BUILTIN\Administrators Allow FullControl BUILTIN\Users Allow AppendData BUILTIN\Users Allow CreateFiles BUILTIN\Users Allow ReadAndExecu