Monthly Archives: August 2016

How To Install PowerShell On Linux

How To Install PowerShell On Linux

Earlier this month Microsoft announced that PowerShell had been open sourced and would be available for use in Linux. As a result of this, PowerShell is now available for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04, CentOS/RHEL 7, and macOS 10.11.

If your first thought is along the lines of “who would use this abomination?”, then you’re in good company. My best thought at who this is targeted towards is the Windows system administrator that needs to be able to manage Linux systems as they are likely already quite familiar with PowerShell and perhaps unwilling to change.

Personally I’d look at using a tool such as Puppet for managing systems running various operating systems, however here’s how you can install PowerShell in Linux should you want to take this path.

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How To Install IIS In Windows Server 2016

Install IIS Web Server - Windows Server 2016

Here we’re going to show you how to install the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server version 10.0 in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2016 operating system.

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How To Add A Nessus Scanner To SecurityCenter Using Certificates

Add Nessus Scanner To Tenable SecurityCenter

This guide will show you how to add a Nessus scanner into Tenable’s SecurityCenter using certificate based authentication, rather than standard username and password authentication.

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How To Upgrade/Migrate Ejabberd XMPP Server On Linux

Migrate Or Upgrade Ejabberd XMPP Server In Linux

In this example we will be upgrading from an older instance of the ejabberd-15.04 XMPP server to the current latest version ejabberd-16.06. Operating system specific packages such as RPM and DEB files were not provided until ejabberd-15.06, so our existing instance was not installed with the RPM file but instead from the binary file, meaning there is no existing ejabberd RPM installed for us to simply upgrade.

While this upgrade is taking place on the same server, these steps can also be used to perform a migration from one server to another with a fresh installation of ejabberd, as the new version will install to a new directory.

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How To Migrate Tenable SecurityCenter

Migrating Tenable SecurityCenter

Here we’re going to cover how to migrate an existing running instance of Tenable SecurityCenter from one Linux server to another.

I was not able to find great documentation around this process, and after contacting Tenable support for instructions I found that the steps provided were very basic and did not actually include everything needed, so I have documented everything that I needed to do here.

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