@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@BRRABill said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@wirestyle22 said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

That is an excellent book. That's how I got started with PS about a year ago.

first or second link?

Second link. The Month of PowerShell lunches. That's pretty good.

How long of a lunch do you get?

However long I need, lol. Usually ~45 mins or an hour.

Yeah, that was kind of a joke, referring to the title of the book.

@Dashrender said in Managing Hyper-V:

@Tim_G said in Managing Hyper-V:

I don't understand what the issue is here. Install and configure a Hyper-V Host... then connect to it via Hyper-V Manager, FCM, or PowerShell. None of the Windows GUI tools do anything that you cannot do with PowerShell. In fact it's the other way around. You can do way more to Hyper-V with PowerShell than from any tool. Just learn the commands and move on. They are so easy.

That allows you to manage the hypervisor.. what about getting console access to the VMs?

Why wouldn't you use RDP there? Or PowerShell?

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@wirestyle22 said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

That is an excellent book. That's how I got started with PS about a year ago.

first or second link?

Second link. The Month of PowerShell lunches. That's pretty good.

How long of a lunch do you get?

@momurda said in So you want to build a Security Program? Part 1 - Vulnerability Scanning:

Running
rpm -qa | grep kernel
showed 5 or 6 kernels still installed. whoops.
package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=2 removed all but the current and next oldest one.

OpenVAS FTW.

@scottalanmiller said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@DustinB3403 said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

Flat out saying it "cost to much to take your money" is literally turning customers away.

It is, but it is also turning away small customers that might not be profitable and what they have to consider is the risk that this poses to bigger customers. I don't agree with the approach, but they have sound logic for why they do what they do. All customers are not good customers.

If I remember the conversation correctly (we went through all of this with @olivier on a ML thread) that was the crux of it, that it cost too much to support the smaller clients, since they don't have that many people.

@scottalanmiller said

For MSPs, for example, things like XO are godsends. Centralized management for multiple installations, no need for Windows licensing just for a GUI interface, etc.

Maybe someday @olivier will integrate support!

@DustinB3403 said in So you want to build a Security Program? Part 1 - Vulnerability Scanning:

@BRRABill So the setup its self so far hasn't seemed to difficult.

The GUI sucks though, and isn't intuitive. Adding targets is awkward, but once you've seen it, its easy enough.

Yeah, I guess installing wasn't a big deal. I ended up just using one of their preconfigured ones. (This was back in my pre-Linux days.)

I think getting it work was more my thing. I'm sure if I stayed on it I would have figured it out. The GUI is definitely terrible.

I remember trying to get OpenVAS set up once.

(Shudders...)

@RojoLoco said

I never feel clean if I shower the night before.

Same here. I have a friend who does and I argue with him constantly.

His take is that he can't stand sleeping dirty. I don't really care. I am usually asleep in seconds. Even if I am covered in sweat and suntan lotion.

@JaredBusch said

But @dashrender still molested me

Ew, dirty.....