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Good stuff with programmatic acess provided via the search api. However, real value would be for the API to offer synchronous Audit search experience with support for automation such that triggers can be defined to generate the desired result then a listener can execute the desired action.
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Asynchronous execution is not an improvement, almost all the time when I have to run an audit search I have to repeatedly adjust the query in order to get the desired set of results. Thus being able to quickly run a synchronous operation (often times with -ResultSize 1 just to ensure I get results) ...
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@john66571 good call out. Note though that a few more steps are taken before base64 is returned. Check the content from this source Release 1.0.8 · Azure/ArcEnabledServersGroupPolicy · GitHub , specifically AzureArcDeployment.psm1, and follow the breadcrumbs of the protect() call that is being made....
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Thank you @Simone_Oor for Sharing this Great Blogpost with the Community
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@john66571 you are correct: base64 is not an "encryption". But here we are talking about "ProtectBase64" which is utilizing DPAPI for the protection/encryption of the "payload".
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