Today’s tutorial is nothing new, but I just thought I’d share some recent experience with Microsoft’s PowerShell. I’ve been playing around with PowerShell (PS) for a little while now, nothing too extravagant. I’m not an administrator, so I don’t have hundreds of little tasks I have to do on a daily basis (unless I can write a script to help me wake up and get ready in the morning.. C:\>Set-TeethClean ? ) – Anyways, I was recently assigned the rudimentary task of searching through the Windows Certificate store and finding all CAs that were signed with MD5. If MD5 rings a bell it’s most likely because of this.

I really didn’t want to go through the list one by one, double-clicking, then selecting the Details tab. So, I decided there had to be an easy way to parse this information. My first idea was to fire up Visual Studio and write a quick C# app to do this as it has built-in Certificate Store classes/functions. This seemed too cumbersome, but I still wanted to leverage the .NET framework for the same features. PowerShell it was then.

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