{"id":72481,"date":"2015-10-27T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/27\/powertip-encode-string-and-execute-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:34:45","slug":"powertip-encode-string-and-execute-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-encode-string-and-execute-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Encode String and Execute with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to encode a string into base64 and execute it with Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I encode a string into base64 and then run it via Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use these commands:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">$string = {(Get-WindowsFeature).Where{$PSItem.Installed}}.ToString()<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">$encodedcommand = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($string))<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">powershell.exe -EncodedCommand $encodedcommand<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/hsg-10-27-15-tip.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/hsg-10-27-15-tip.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to encode a string into base64 and execute it with Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I encode a string into base64 and then run it via Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use these commands: $string = {(Get-WindowsFeature).Where{$PSItem.Installed}}.ToString() $encodedcommand = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($string)) powershell.exe -EncodedCommand $encodedcommand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[628,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-72481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-david-obrien","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to encode a string into base64 and execute it with Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I encode a string into base64 and then run it via Windows PowerShell? &nbsp;Use these commands: $string = {(Get-WindowsFeature).Where{$PSItem.Installed}}.ToString() $encodedcommand = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($string)) powershell.exe -EncodedCommand $encodedcommand<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}