This is a quick and dirty guide you can follow for a badass Powershell 7 deployment on a new client.
This guide will help you to get started with the below:
- Powershell 7 #new shiny shell with usefull functions.
- scoop #usefull commandline utilities
- chocolately #windows package manager for easy installation of software
- Windows Terminal # Windows new shell installation and customisation
- Windows $Profile and Functions
- PSRemoting with SSH
Internet Access & Local Administrator on the machine you wish to install PS7 on.
First step is to download that new juicy Powershell 7 with ye olde Powershell and run the installer. Copy the below into a Powershell window which will start the download of Powershell 7.
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12;
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.0.0/PowerShell-7.0.0-win-x64.msi' -OutFile ($home +'\downloads\PowerShell-7.0.0-win-x64.msi');
ii ($home +'\downloads\');
Scoop can be installed by running the below command;
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser;iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
scoop update *
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install sudo
scoop install 7zip
scoop install aria2
scoop install concfg
scoop install curl
scoop install dark
scoop install ffsend
scoop install git
scoop install http-downloader
scoop install innounp
scoop install openssh
scoop install openssl
scoop install ffsend
scoop install speedtest-cli
scoop install hosts-file-editor
scoop install treesize-free
Chocolately can be installed by running this command;
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'));
choco install vscode
choco install notepad++
choco install microsoft-windows-terminal
When chocolately if you have not already you can install Windows Terminal with the below;
choco install microsoft-windows-terminal
Powershell loads a .ps1 file when it is initialised and executes the commands found within the file. This file is called a profile file. The location of the profile can be found by typing the below command and the Powershell Prompt;
$profile
It is possible that after a fresh install the PS7 profile is not created. You can check if this file exists in PS7 with the below command, if the file does not exist the file is created.
(test-path($home + '\Documents\Powershell\')) ? "Folder Already Exists" : (New-item -path ($home + '\Documents\Powershell\') -type "directory");
(test-path $profile ) ? "Profile Already Exists" : (New-item -path ($profile) -type "file");
ii $profile;
Functions can be added to your powershell profile file found in the $profile path. I have added some useful functions and linked the location of them in this gitub below. Functions
function Start-RDP ($computername)
{
Start-Process "$env:windir\system32\mstsc.exe" -ArgumentList "/v:$computername"
}
Start-RDP server.lan
See https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2020/04/enable-powershell-ssh-remoting-in-powershell-7/
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