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Hello everyone!

Yesterday I pushed new PSPKI release with version number v3.3.0. New version is even more stable and even more powerful. More technical change list is moved to dedicated article: Release notes for PSPKI v3.3.0. In this (and, possibly next) blog post I would like to outline major changes/improvements to this release.

ADCS Database row presentation

I bet that ADCS database access is one of the most popular features people love in my module. And there are reasons: I put a lot of efforts to simplify access to CA database and provide flexible filter options. For example, get certificates that will expire in next 30 days:


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Hello world! Last time (year or so) I was busy on anything else but my module. Now I’m happy to announce that the project isn’t died, it is alive and new version is published.

This version doesn’t bring new commands, nor deprecate any. I think, command list is well-established and I don’t see anything useful to add. People doesn’t ask either. However there are things to work with code: refactor, optimize, make it cleaner and so on. Let’s look at what I’ve done here:

PowerShell Gallery

  • Moved sources from CodePlex to GitHub

Initially, project was hosted at CodePlex which is died now. I moved all my sources to GitHub, documentation to my web site and used CodePlex as module download place.

  • Moved binaries to PowerShell Gallery

Since CodePlex is done, the only real option to ship binaries was to use PowerShell Gallery. It is something new to me (I never used it till today) and was a bit lost there. But it appeared more easier than I thought. Starting with v3.2.7, the module is available on PowerShell Gallery: PSPKI. Please, provide feedback on your experience with getting PowerShell PKI module from gallery.

  • Deprecated MSI Installer

In the past, I used MSI installer to ship the module. It is still very good option to do that, because you can use various tools, like group policies or ConfigMgr to deploy the module within organization. Thanks to Caphyon Advanced Installer and their free NFR license (as a part of my Microsoft MVP award) I was able to do that. And their tool was really great and easy to use. However, my MVP award options are uncertain and PowerShell Gallery is an acceptable tradeoff, so there is no big need in MSI anymore.

Fixed bugs


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Hello S-1-1-0!

After three months since PSPKI module v3.2.5 was released I received a number of unfortunate bugs (which weren’t tested very well from my side) and other issues. So I decided to address them while I have some spare time. In addition, I made an attempt to provide new functionality I really missed in the module.

This release is intended to make the module more stable and less buggy. In some aspects it become faster.

Bug Fixes

I have fixed a number of private bugs (found by myself) and publically reported bugs:

For detailed change logs and privately reported issues see:


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I’m glad to announce another version of PowerShell PKI module release.

What’s new?

This release includes major internal code changes with new functionality.

  • Code reorganization

At first, I completely separated Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN.1) code from main library to a dedicated DLL: SysadminsLV.Asn1Parser.dll. As I mentioned in one of previous posts, PKI.Core.dll and ASN parser are opensourced on GitHub: pkix.net and Asn1DerParser.NET.


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It was a long-waited decision, however, finally I did it. Today I released my two major .NET projects to GitHub:

  • ASN.1 Parser

This is my own ASN.1 binary parser. ASN.1 parser/reader is a mandatory component when you are dealing with cryptography and cryptographic messages, because all they use ASN.1. I’m using this library in ASN.1 Editor and PowerShell PKI module’s API library (it is now opensourced as well).


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