Tuesday, August 27, 2013

VBScript to Unlock Powershell

I know it sounds odd.  But if the execution policy for powershell is set to restricted you can't do an awful lot remotely and most of what I do is remote.  To top that off a lot of times the multitude of remote managment tools don't work when you're troubleshooting an issues.  So there are a couple ways to set execution policy remotely. 

A lot of times I'll just do a psexec to run 'powershell set-executionpolicy unrestricted' but sometimes I've had issues with that erroring out for some reason, where dropping a script to the local machine and kicking it off locally works.  I don't know why.  So here's the script I drop on the box and then I use psexec to run it.

'---------------------------------------------------------------------------
' PowerShell Unlocker                             
' AUTH: David Bennett                                                      
' WEB :
http://sccmbrokeit.blogspot.com/
'                                                                          
' THIS CODE AND INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY   
' KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE      
' IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR    
' PURPOSE.                                                                 
'                                                                          
' Use : cscript UnlockPowerShell.vbs                                       
' Desc: Just runs "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted" so that powershell    
' scripts will run. Needs to be ran outside of PSH                  
' The intent of this version is to be dropped on a system and remotely
' executed with PSEXEC                                               
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Error Resume Next
Err.Clear
Dim objShell
set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")

strPS = "Powershell.exe Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted"
objShell.Run(strPS,0)

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