Add new workaround for Microsoft's pointless restrictions

* This adds the new required dance with ov-df.microsoft.com. * Won't help with the extra IP filtering MS seems to have added to detect VPN access. * Closes #106. * Maybe one day Microsoft will take a page from Linux and realise that trying to ostracise users, by not making the ISO downloads freely accessible through wget, curl and scripts, WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS, is yet another great way to cement the ongoing decline of your OS. Then again, if Microsoft maintains its current user-aggravating direction, we may find out, possibly soon, if both parts of "too big to fail" Wintel can meet the same fate...
Add UEFI Shell 25H2 downloads
2026-02-28 08:06:49 +01:00 · 2026-02-16 15:59:03 +00:00 · 2025-11-21 21:35:44 +00:00 · 2025-09-30 22:27:33 +01:00 · 2025-06-12 17:42:16 +01:00 · 2024-11-24 22:26:40 +00:00
3 changed files with 487 additions and 349 deletions
--- a/Fido.ps1
+++ b/Fido.ps1
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Fido: A PowerShell download script for Microsoft Windows and UEFI Shell ISOs
-============================================================================
+Fido: A PowerShell script to download Windows and UEFI Shell ISOs
+=================================================================

 [![Licence](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPLv3-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)
 [![Github stats](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/pbatard/Fido/total.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/pbatard/Fido/releases)
--- a/sign.sh
+++ b/sign.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ sign_file() {
 }

 # Update the Authenticode signature
-MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL='*' "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.22000.0\x64\signtool" sign /v /sha1 3dbc3a2a0e9ce8803b422cfdbc60acd33164965d /fd SHA256 /tr http://sha256timestamp.ws.symantec.com/sha256/timestamp /td SHA256 Fido.ps1
+MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL='*' "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.22000.0\x64\signtool" sign /v /sha1 fc4686753937a93fdcd48c2bb4375e239af92dcb /fd SHA256 /tr http://timestamp.digicert.com /td SHA256 Fido.ps1
 read -s -p "Enter pass phrase for `realpath $PRIVATE_KEY`: " PASSWORD
 echo
 # Confirm that the pass phrase is valid by trying to sign a dummy file
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Pete Batard	ea425ffbec	Add new workaround for Microsoft's pointless restrictions * This adds the new required dance with ov-df.microsoft.com. * Won't help with the extra IP filtering MS seems to have added to detect VPN access. * Closes #106. * Maybe one day Microsoft will take a page from Linux and realise that trying to ostracise users, by not making the ISO downloads freely accessible through wget, curl and scripts, WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS, is yet another great way to cement the ongoing decline of your OS. Then again, if Microsoft maintains its current user-aggravating direction, we may find out, possibly soon, if both parts of "too big to fail" Wintel can meet the same fate...	2026-02-16 15:59:03 +00:00
Pete Batard	41d5b8e79f	Add UEFI Shell 25H2 downloads	2025-11-21 21:35:44 +00:00
Pete Batard	0d5a7fed87	Add Windows 11 25H2 downloads * With thanks to @ave9858. * Closes #100.	2025-09-30 22:27:33 +01:00
Pete Batard	2fc1739224	Add UEFI Shell 25H1 downloads	2025-06-12 17:42:16 +01:00
Pete Batard	96c3637863	Add UEFI Shell 24H2 downloads * Also add a new -PlatformArch option, to help avoid the very time consuming WMI call to autodetect the native CPU arch.	2024-11-24 22:26:40 +00:00
Pete Batard	c034a4e72a	Fix localization of error message 715-123130 * As usual, Microsoft are completely unable to properly process UTF-8 content, even if the response from an Invoke-WebRequest query explicitly specifies "charset=utf-8". * So, once again, we need to force PowerShell's hand to treat the content as UTF-8. * Also improve the default error message if we can't get it from Microsoft.	2024-11-20 13:51:17 +00:00
Pete Batard	ce405fa35c	Switch to using the new JSON Windows download API * This simplifies things quite a bit since we were converting HTML to XML to JSON before. * Also drop the custom User Agent for now. We'll have to see how long it takes Microsoft to go back to filtering out PowerShell... * Closes #98.	2024-11-19 22:42:39 +00:00
Pete Batard	5402fc6222	Add ARM64 Windows 11 downloads * Gotta really praise Microsoft for having designed their download servers to handle multiple archs for the same Windows SKUs... and then completely throw that out of the window to instead make Windows 11 ARM64 a different SKU. * Now, because we don't want to be AS MORONIC AS MICROSOFT, we go the extra mile (and issue multiple requests, using multiple session IDs) to make the ARM64 ARCHITECTURE fall into the fold of where it belongs, i.e. as a user selectable property of a single Windows 11 release. * Closes #97.	2024-11-18 01:52:22 +00:00
Pete Batard	f8cec58032	Clean up and update * Drop Korean exception, since Microsoft no longer serves Korean specific images, and simplify Chinese exceptions. * Drop Windows 7 ISO handling, since Microsoft no longer serves Windows 7 ISOs. * Update Firefox user agent version. * Add a new -Debug switch to dump responses, and simplify verbosity handling.	2024-11-15 13:15:01 +00:00
Pete Batard	ec4673831c	Remove Windows 11 23H2 ISO downloads	2024-10-03 16:53:10 +01:00
Pete Batard	3f791c6c4c	Add Windows 11 24H2 downloads * With thanks to @ave9858.	2024-10-01 21:20:35 +01:00
Pete Batard	29d8150b04	Remove Windows 8.1 downloads * Microsoft removed them from their website.	2024-07-08 12:34:10 +01:00
Pete Batard	f55fd2932c	Switch back to using 'Invoke-WebRequest' instead of 'curl' * Closes #91.	2024-06-18 12:08:48 +01:00
Pete Batard	06a14ba11c	Add UEFI Shell 24H1 ISO downloads	2024-05-30 13:16:38 +01:00
Pete Batard	4e6f25f351	Work around the latest Microsoft server restrictions * It looks like Microsoft are actively filtering our script by detecting our first request with the spoofed user-agent, so work around that. * Also switch to using 'curl' instead of 'Invoke-WebRequest'. May break PowerShell 7.0, but I'm only concerned about Rufus usage for now. * Also add timeouts on web requests. * Closes #88.	2024-02-07 15:55:59 +00:00
Pete Batard	d43d7aeee3	Add Windows 11 23H2 v2 downloads * With thanks to @ave9858. * Closes #83.	2023-12-19 10:27:44 +00:00
Pete Batard	d8b2d24242	Add UEFI Shell 23H2 ISO downloads * Also fix Windows 11 23H2 build version since Microsoft are UTTERLY USELESS at providing an accurate product version number in the .wim's XML versioning files they are in bloody charge of populating...	2023-11-25 17:55:01 +00:00
Pete Batard	903cae2f00	Add Windows 11 23H2 downloads * Replaces Windows 11 22H2, since past history indicates that Microsoft is not going to keep the Windows 11 22H2 ISOs available for much longer. * Note that Microsoft has no plans to ever release a Windows 10 23H2. * Closes #76.	2023-10-31 19:23:43 +01:00
Pete Batard	5d4a4d7d14	Fix a regression with IgnoreWarnings * Commit `1d88deac7c` removed the IgnoreWarnings flag which was needed as a fix for pbatard/rufus#2030. * Contributed by @Tom-EllisEVENTS. * Closes pbatard/rufus#2315.	2023-09-08 18:35:53 +01:00