pombredanne/psupdatereporting

Provides cmdlets to easily generate reports on CVSS information as published by Microsoft at https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com utilizing the RESTful API.

#PSUpdateReporting

##Purpose

Since Microsoft has created a new site for gathering security update information, MSRC, it is slightly more accessible, but many of the methods used previously (page scraping, etc) are no longer viable. However, administrators are not without recourse. Microsoft has provided a RESTful API.

This PowerShell module makes use of the exposed API in order to retreive update information. Once the information is gathered, it may be reported on in a manner useful to the administrator with built-in functionality.

##Functions

Functions are broken down into the usual PowerShell verb-noun results-based separations.

###Listing

####MSRCAPIKey-actions.ps1

• Get-APIKey

  Displays the API key setting previously set with Set-APIKey.

• Set-APIKey

  Sets the API key provided by the user as a parameter.
  API key is available here.

####Data-actions.ps1

• Receive-UpdateListing

  Uses API Key to pull information from MSRC, stores data temporarily.
  Primary parameter is search scope.

• Save-UpdateReport

  Saves report data.
  Parameters include FileType, Path.

##Testing

Basic pester-based testing is built-in.