Crescendo, certutil, and command lines (with Jake Hildreth)

Over the years, many Microsoft command-line tools have come and gone, but some, like certutil.exe, have stood the test of time. Chances are you’ve used certutil countless times for certificate tasks, and maybe even memorized some of its old-school syntax to get things done. But one thing is clear: certutil doesn’t exactly play well with PowerShell or automation out of the box.
In this talk, you'll see how Jake Hildreth leveraged Crescendo to transform certutil’s raw, unstructured output into a clean, PowerShell-friendly tool that you’ll actually enjoy using in your scripts.
Jake will introduce Crescendo and explain the challenges it addresses. Then he’ll guide us through the journey from traditional certutil commands to their improved, Crescendo-powered versions. He and James will likely discuss the pros/cons of wrapping frameworks vs. bespoke wrapping. To end the evening, Jake will take a stab at wrapping the UTM (https://getutm.app/) command line utility utmctl using Crescendo live with input from the crowd.