version bump and error preference improvement

version bump and error preference improvement

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/C#/GUI/Confirm/View.cs

@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ private void Confirm(object obj)
                 // Create a collection view based on the security options collection
                 _membersView = System.Windows.Data.CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(_members);
 
-                // Set the ItemSource of the DataGrid in the Confirm view to the collection view               
+                // Set the ItemSource of the DataGrid in the Confirm view to the collection view
                 if (HardenWindowsSecurity.ConfirmSystemComplianceGUI.membersDataGrid != null)
                 {
                     // Bind the DataGrid to the collection view
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ await System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(() =>
                     await System.Windows.Application.Current.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync(() =>
                         {
                             LoadMembers(); // Load updated security options
-                            RefreshButton.IsChecked = false; // Uncheck the Refresh button 
+                            RefreshButton.IsChecked = false; // Uncheck the Refresh button
                         });
 
                     // mark as activity completed

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Core/Confirm-SystemCompliance.psm1

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ function Confirm-SystemCompliance {
         [System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter]$Offline
     )
     begin {
+        $script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
         # Makes sure this cmdlet is invoked with Admin privileges
         if (-NOT ([HardenWindowsSecurity.UserPrivCheck]::IsAdmin())) {
             Throw [System.Security.AccessControl.PrivilegeNotHeldException] 'Administrator'
@@ -155,6 +156,8 @@ function Confirm-SystemCompliance {
 
     process {
         try {
+            Write-Progress -Activity 'Performing Compliance Check...' -Status 'Running' -PercentComplete 50
+
             [HardenWindowsSecurity.InvokeConfirmation]::Invoke($Categories)
 
             # Making sure all the true/false values have the same case
@@ -288,6 +291,7 @@ function Confirm-SystemCompliance {
             Throw $_
         }
         finally {
+            Write-Progress -Activity 'Compliance checks have been completed' -Status 'Completed' -Completed
             [HardenWindowsSecurity.ControlledFolderAccessHandler]::Reset()
             [HardenWindowsSecurity.Miscellaneous]::CleanUp()
         }

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Core/Protect-WindowsSecurity.psm1

@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ Function Protect-WindowsSecurity {
     }
 
     begin {
+        $script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
         [HardenWindowsSecurity.Initializer]::Initialize($VerbosePreference)
         [System.Boolean]$ErrorsOcurred = $false
 
@@ -407,6 +408,7 @@ Function Protect-WindowsSecurity {
             # Download the required files
             if (!([HardenWindowsSecurity.GlobalVars]::Offline)) {
                 Write-Verbose -Message 'Downloading the required files'
+                Write-Progress -Activity 'Downloading the required files' -Status 'Downloading' -PercentComplete 20
             }
             [HardenWindowsSecurity.FileDownloader]::PrepDownloadedFiles(
                 "$PathToLGPO",
@@ -415,6 +417,8 @@ Function Protect-WindowsSecurity {
             )
             Write-Verbose -Message 'Finished downloading/processing the required files'
 
+            Write-Progress -Activity 'Applying the security measures' -Status 'Protecting' -PercentComplete 50
+
             # a label to break out of the main switch statements and run the finally block when user chooses to exit
             :MainSwitchLabel switch ($Categories) {
                 'MicrosoftSecurityBaselines' { Invoke-MicrosoftSecurityBaselines -RunUnattended }
@@ -451,6 +455,7 @@ Function Protect-WindowsSecurity {
             $ErrorsOcurred = $true
         }
         finally {
+            Write-Progress -Activity 'Protection completed' -Status 'Completed' -Completed
             if ($null -ne $CurrentPowerShellTitle) {
                 Write-Verbose -Message 'Restoring the title of the PowerShell back to what it was prior to running the module'
                 $Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = $CurrentPowerShellTitle

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Core/Unprotect-WindowsSecurity.psm1

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Function Unprotect-WindowsSecurity {
         if (-NOT ([HardenWindowsSecurity.UserPrivCheck]::IsAdmin())) {
             Throw [System.Security.AccessControl.PrivilegeNotHeldException] 'Administrator'
         }
+        $script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
         [HardenWindowsSecurity.Initializer]::Initialize($VerbosePreference)
 
         Write-Verbose -Message 'Importing the required sub-modules'

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Harden-Windows-Security-Module.psd1

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   # https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_module_manifests
 
   RootModule           = 'Harden-Windows-Security-Module.psm1'
-  ModuleVersion        = '0.5.6'
+  ModuleVersion        = '0.5.7'
   CompatiblePSEditions = @('Core')
   GUID                 = 'afae7a0a-5eff-4a4d-9139-e1702b7ac426'
   Author               = 'HotCakeX'

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Harden-Windows-Security-Module.psm1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$global:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
+$script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
 
 try {
     $PSStyle.Progress.UseOSCIndicator = $true

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Resources/XAML/Confirm.xaml

@@ -316,19 +316,19 @@
                         Visibility="{Binding ElementName=textBoxFilter, Path=Text.IsEmpty}" />
                 <TextBox Name="textBoxFilter" Style="{StaticResource filterTextBox}" />
             </Grid>
-            
+
             <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0,0,0,30">
-                
+
                 <TextBlock x:Name="CompliantItemsTextBlock"
                FontSize="15" FontWeight="SemiBold" Foreground="#121518"
                HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center"
-               Margin="0,0,40,0"/>               
-                
+               Margin="0,0,40,0"/>
+
                 <!-- Add some margin to the right -->
                 <TextBlock x:Name="NonCompliantItemsTextBlock"
                FontSize="15" FontWeight="SemiBold" Foreground="#121518"
                HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
-           
+
             </StackPanel>
 
             <!--SecOps Data Grid-->

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Shared/HardeningFunctions.ps1

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
+$script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
 
 #Region Helper-Functions-And-ScriptBlocks
 # The following functions do not rely on any script-wide or global variables

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Main files/Shared/Update-self.psm1

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ function Update-self {
         [ValidatePattern('^(Protect-WindowsSecurity|Unprotect-WindowsSecurity|Confirm-SystemCompliance)(?!.*[;`]).*$', ErrorMessage = 'Either Update-self function was called with an unauthorized command or it contains semicolon and/or backtick')]
         [System.String]$InvocationStatement
     )
+    $script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
 
     # Get the current module's version
     [System.Version]$CurrentVersion = (Test-ModuleManifest -Path "$([HardenWindowsSecurity.GlobalVars]::Path)\Harden-Windows-Security-Module.psd1").Version

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Program.cs

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ namespace HardenWindowsSecurity
 {
     class Program
     {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// You can use this method when working on the module in Visual Studio
+        /// Simply press F5 and the UI will boot. The same can be done in Visual Studio Code in PowerShell environment.
+        /// The hybrid design allows for both environments to be completely usable.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="args"></param>
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
             #region

Harden-Windows-Security Module/Utilities/Invoke-Harden-Windows-Security.ps1

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # This file is for launching Harden-Windows-Security module in VS Code so that it can attach its debugger to the process
 
+$script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
+
 # Get the current folder of this script file
 [System.String]$ScriptFilePath = ($MyInvocation.MyCommand.path | Split-Path -Parent)
 

Harden-Windows-Security Module/version.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.5.6
+0.5.7