Office 365 Essentials. Get up and running with the fundamentals of Office 365

Nuno Arias Silva

Office 365 is suite of advanced collaboration tools used by many well known organizations and their system administrators. This book starts with an introduction to Office 365 and its basic fundamentals. Then we move towards workload management and deployment. You will delve into identities, authentications, and managing office 365. We also cover concepts such as collaboration with Microsoft teams and tools such as Delve and Skype for collaboration. Towards the end of the book, you'll master monitoring and security concepts.By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience working with Office 365 and its collaboration tools and services

Okta Administration Up and Running. Drive operational excellence with IAM solutions for on-premises and cloud apps - Second Edition

HenkJan de Vries, Lovisa Stenbäcken Stjernlöf

Identity and access management (IAM) is a set of policies and technologies used to ensure an organization’s security, by carefully assigning roles and access to users and devices. This book will get you up and running with Okta, an IAM service that can help you manage both employees and customers.The book begins by helping you understand how Okta can be used as an IAM platform, before teaching you about Universal Directory and how to integrate with other directories and apps, as well as set up groups and policies for Joiner, Mover, and Leaver flows.This updated edition helps you to explore agentless desktop single sign-on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions, and showing how to utilize Okta to meet NIST requirements. The chapters also walk you through Okta Workflows, low-/no-code automation functionalities, and custom API possibilities used to improve lifecycle management. Finally, you’ll delve into API access auditing and management, where you’ll discover how to leverage Advanced Server Access (ASA) for your cloud servers.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to implement Okta to enhance your organization's security and be able to use the book as a reference guide for the Okta certification exam.

OpenDaylight Cookbook. Deploy and operate software-defined networking in your organization

Alexis de Talhouët, Mathieu Lemay, Mohamed Elserngawy, Jamie Goodyear, ...

OpenDaylight is an open source platform to program and build Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Its aim is to accelerate the adoption of SDN and NFV. With above 90 practical recipes, this book will help you to solve day-to-day problems and maintenance tasks surrounding OpenDaylight’s implementation.This book starts with the OpenDaylight fundamentals. In this book, you will gain a sound understanding of the methods and techniques when deploying OpenDaylight in production environment. Later on, you will learn to create a Service Chain using SFC. This book will address common problems and day-to-day maintenance tasks with OpenDaylight. We’ll also will teach you how to interact with OpenDaylight APIs and use the necessary tools to simulate networks. You will also explore how to create your own branded OpenDaylight along with authorising and authenticating users using OpenDaylight Identity Manager.By the end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to operate an OpenDaylight SDN environment.

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook. Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation - Fourth Edition

Kevin Jackson, Cody Bunch, Egle Sigler, James Denton

This is the fourth edition of the industry-acclaimed OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, created by four recognized OpenStack experts. It has now been updated to work with the latest OpenStack builds, using tools and processes based on their collective and vast OpenStack experience. OpenStack Open Source Cloud software is one of the most used cloud infrastructures to support a wide variety of use cases, from software development to big data analysis. It is developed by a thriving community of individual developers from around the globe and backed by most of the leading players in the cloud space today. We make it simple to implement, massively scalable, and able to store a large pool of data and networking resources. OpenStack has a strong ecosystem that helps you provision your cloud storage needs. Add OpenStack's enterprise features to reduce the cost of your business.This book will begin by showing you the steps to build up an OpenStack private cloud environment using Ansible. You'll then discover the uses of cloud services such as the identity service, image service, and compute service. You'll dive into Neutron, the OpenStack Networking service, and get your hands dirty with configuring networks, routers, load balancers, and more. You’ll then gather more expert knowledge on OpenStack cloud computing by managing your cloud's security and migration. After that, we delve into OpenStack Object storage and you’ll see how to manage servers and work with objects, cluster, and storage functionalities. Finally, you will learn about OpenStack dashboard, Ansible, Keystone, and other interesting topics.

OpenStack for Architects. Design and implement successful private clouds with OpenStack

Michael Solberg, Benjamin Silverman

Over the last five years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders such as Red Hat have led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Because of its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill-set to design and implement it.This guide leads you through each of the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. At each point, we offer you advice based on the experience we've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, we focus on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout.

OpenVPN Cookbook. Get the most out of OpenVPN by exploring it's advanced features. - Second Edition

Jan Just Keijser

OpenVPN provides an extensible VPN framework that has been designed to ease site-specific customization, such as providing the capability to distribute a customized installation package to clients, and supporting alternative authentication methods via OpenVPN’s plugin module interface. This book provides you with many different recipes to help you set up, monitor, and troubleshoot an OpenVPN network. You will learn to configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm that can handle thousands of dynamic connections from incoming VPN clients. You will also get to grips with the encryption, authentication, security, extensibility, and certifications features of OpenSSL. You will also get an understanding of IPv6 support and will get a demonstration of how to establish a connection via IPv64. This book will explore all the advanced features of OpenVPN and even some undocumented options, covering all the common network setups such as point-to-point networks and multi-client TUN-style and TAP-style networks. Finally, you will learn to manage, secure, and troubleshoot your virtual private networks using OpenVPN 2.4.

Oracle Linux Cookbook. Embrace Oracle Linux and master Linux Server Management

Erik Benner, Erik B. Thomsen, Jonathan Spindel, Robert G. Shimp

Discover the power of Oracle Linux 8, the free and enterprise-grade Linux distribution designed for use in any environment, with this recipe-style book.Starting with instructions on how to obtain Oracle Linux for both X86 and ARM-based platforms, this book walks you through various installation methods, from running it as a Windows service to installing it on a Raspberry Pi. It unravels advanced topics such as system upgrades using Leapp for major version transitions and using a PXE server and kickstart files for more advanced installations. The book then delves into swapping kernels to take advantage of Oracle’s UEK, exploring boot options, managing software with DNF, and achieving high availability. Detailed recipes involving security topics will assist with tasks such as data encryption, both at rest and in motion.For developers, it offers guidance on building RPM files, using Docker and Podman in a containerized environment, working with AppStreams, and more. For large-scale deployments, the book introduces Oracle Linux Automation Manager for enterprise-level Ansible utilization, from setting up the Ansible server to basic playbook writing. Finally, you’ll discover strategies for cloud migration.By the end of this book, you’ll possess a comprehensive toolkit that will elevate your skills as a Linux administrator.

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook. Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems

Alexandre Borges

Password Cracking with Kali Linux. Unlock Windows Security with Kali Linux Expertise

Daniel W. Dieterle

Unlock the secrets of Windows password security with Password Cracking with Kali Linux, your essential guide to navigating password-cracking techniques. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Windows security fundamentals, arming you with the knowledge and tools for effective ethical hacking.The course begins with a foundational understanding of password security, covering prerequisites, lab setup, and an overview of the journey ahead. You'll explore Kerberoasting, tools like Rubeus, Mimikatz, and various attack methods, providing a solid base for understanding password vulnerabilities.The course focuses on practical applications of password cracking, including wordlist generation using tools like Crunch and Hashcat, and exploring various attack strategies. You'll delve into John the Ripper and Hashcat functionalities, learning to identify hash types and crack complex passwords efficiently.The course wraps up with advanced techniques in Linux password cracking and defense strategies. You'll gain insights into creating leaderboards, achievements, and monetizing games, equipping you with skills to not just crack passwords but also secure systems effectively.

Pentesting Industrial Control Systems. An ethical hacker's guide to analyzing, compromising, mitigating, and securing industrial processes

Paul Smith

The industrial cybersecurity domain has grown significantly in recent years. To completely secure critical infrastructure, red teams must be employed to continuously test and exploit the security integrity of a company's people, processes, and products.This is a unique pentesting book, which takes a different approach by helping you gain hands-on experience with equipment that you’ll come across in the field. This will enable you to understand how industrial equipment interacts and operates within an operational environment.You'll start by getting to grips with the basics of industrial processes, and then see how to create and break the process, along with gathering open-source intel to create a threat landscape for your potential customer. As you advance, you'll find out how to install and utilize offensive techniques used by professional hackers. Throughout the book, you'll explore industrial equipment, port and service discovery, pivoting, and much more, before finally launching attacks against systems in an industrial network.By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll not only understand how to analyze and navigate the intricacies of an industrial control system (ICS), but you'll also have developed essential offensive and defensive skills to proactively protect industrial networks from modern cyberattacks.

Platforma Windows Azure

Tony Guidici, Tejaswi Redkar

Wydajna chmura obliczeniowa w Twoim zasięgu! Chmury obliczeniowe nie są już marzeniami lub niedojrzałymi produktami w fazie testów. One nas otaczają, a efekty ich obecności widać gołym okiem. Każdy w ciągu kilkunastu minut może stać się właścicielem niezawodnej, wydajnej platformy dla swojego biznesu. Nie potrzebujesz już inwestycji we własne serwerownie, administratorów i mierzenia się z codziennymi problemami z zasilaniem lub łącznością z internetem. Brzmi wspaniale? I tak właśnie jest! Ta książka poświęcona jest jednej z takich platform — Windows Azure. W trakcie lektury odkryjesz możliwości chmury firmy Microsoft oraz dowiesz się, jak wykorzystać jej potencjał. W kolejnych rozdziałach poznasz poszczególne komponenty platformy. Compute jest odpowiedzialny za zadania obliczeniowe, Storage zajmuje się bezpiecznym przechowywaniem danych, Fabric gwarantuje dostęp do informacji na temat stanu technicznego chmury. Ponadto znajdziesz tu dokładny opis komponentu Windows Azure Platform AppFabric, który oferuje dodatkowe funkcje, pozwalające między innymi na caching czy kontrolę dostępu. Książka ta jest niezbędną pozycją dla każdego programisty chcącego uruchamiać aplikacje w chmurze Windows Azure. Sięgnij po tę książkę i wykorzystaj możliwości chmury obliczeniowej: niezwykłą skalowalność blisko 100-procentową niezawodność ogromną wydajność przyjemne zarządzanie redukcję kosztów! Wykorzystaj potencjał chmury obliczeniowej!

Po prostu Windows 7

Maria Sokół

Bez kłopotów zmień swój system na Windows 7 Co to jest Windows 7 i jak z niego korzystać? Jak ujarzmić multimedia i zacząć w pełni wykorzystywać programy? W jaki sposób podłączyć się do sieci i efektywnie zarządzać systemem? Windows 7 w przeciwieństwie do Windows Visty na wszystkich swoich użytkownikach robi doskonałe wrażenie. To znakomity system operacyjny, na który prędzej czy później "przesiądą się" wszyscy użytkownicy pecetów. Warto już teraz poznać jego zalety i korzystać z nowych, wygodniejszych wersji, bogatszych programów, multimediów, ulepszonej wersji przeglądarki Internet Explorer (z numerem 8) oraz narzędzi zarządzania systemem i komputerem pracującym pod jego kontrolą. Z tej książki dowiesz się, czym jest i jak działa Windows 7, jakie wymagania musi spełniać komputer, by system ten pracował prawidłowo, jak rozpocząć pracę i zapewnić bezpieczeństwo swoim danym. Nauczysz się korzystać z podstawowych funkcji Windows 7, obchodzić się z plikami, folderami, oknami, obsługiwać multimedia i drukarki. Dowiesz się, jak używać programów towarzyszących, takich jak edytory tekstu i grafiki czy kalkulator. Odkryjesz, jak dostosować wygląd ekranu i pasek zadań do swoich upodobań, jak używać funkcji ułatwiających pracę w systemie oraz jak konfigurować optymalne połączenia sieciowe. Po lekturze tej książki będziesz mógł swobodnie poruszać się po całym systemie Windows 7. Windows 7 — wymagania, uaktualnianie starszych wersji systemu Windows Zapora połączenia internetowego i blokowanie komputera Uruchamianie, usypianie i zamykanie systemu Konta użytkowników — definiowanie, przełączanie, wylogowywanie Menedżer zadań i interfejs Windows 7 Pulpit, pasek zadań i menu Start — dostosowywanie Operacje na plikach i folderach Multimedia w Windows 7 oraz drukowanie WordPad, Notatnik, Paint i kalkulator Połączenia internetowe — tworzenie i konfigurowanie Zarządzanie komputerem i systemem Już dziś opanuj Windows 7!

PowerShell. 101 zadań do zautomatyzowania

Adam Pietrzak

PowerShell - wykonuj zwykłe zadania w niezwykły sposób Zrób pierwszy krok w stronę fascynującego świata automatyzacji zadań. Poznaj PowerShell, potężne narzędzie, które ułatwia pracę administratorów na całym świecie, i zaprzęgnij go do pracy. Dzięki umiejętnemu posługiwaniu się krótkimi i nieskomplikowanymi poleceniami będziesz w stanie łatwo i szybko wykonywać czynności, których realizacja wymagała dotąd znacznie większego wysiłku. Słowem, robić więcej, robiąc mniej. Autor tej książki proponuje ponad 100 rozwiązań idealnie dopasowanych do potrzeb każdego użytkownika systemu Windows. Co więcej, rozwiązania te nie wymagają umiejętności programowania ani tworzenia oddzielnych, skomplikowanych skryptów. W większości są to tzw. onelinery, czyli jednowierszowce, które się wykonuje poprzez wpisanie w konsolę PowerShell pojedynczej linijki kodu. Wszystkie proponowane tu rozwiązania zostały uzupełnione dokładnym opisem działania i informacją o możliwym wyniku.

PowerShell 7 dla Profesjonalistów IT

Thomas Lee

Naucz się korzystać z wieloplatformowej wersji open source powłoki Windows PowerShell Od lat od administratorów systemów Windows oczekuje się znajomości powłoki PowerShell. Ponieważ jest to standardowe narzędzie automatyzacji firmy Microsoft, każdy administrator prędzej czy później będzie musiał nauczyć się go używać. PowerShell 7, nowa wieloplatformowa wersja open source tego narzędzia, stanowi znaczące usprawnienie względem PowerShell Core i Windows PowerShell. Zebrana razem społeczność PowerShell wzięła pod uwagę liczne opinie i opracowała narzędzie, które oferuje większą zgodność i funkcjonalność niż kiedykolwiek wcześniej. Zdaniem firmy Microsoft, PowerShell 7 stanowi przyszłość produktu PowerShell. PowerShell 7 dla profesjonalistów IT uczy poruszania się po programie PowerShell 7 i używania go do wielu popularnych zadań IT. Dzięki tej książce nauczysz się wykorzystywać PowerShell 7 do zarządzania siecią i usługami AD/DNS/DHCP, pracować z Azure i znacznie więcej. Autor Thomas Lee jest aktywnym członkiem społeczności PowerShell, który wykorzystując swoje profesjonalne doświadczenie i wiedzę upewnia się, że czytelnicy dobrze zrozumieją ten istotny temat. Do zilustrowania opisanych w książce pojęć wykorzystuje rzeczywiste przykłady i dostarcza przykładowy kod, który pozwala wykonać to wszystko samemu. Ta książka pokaże ci wszystko, co PowerShell ma do zaoferowania. Co istotniejsze, dowiesz się, w jaki sposób używać PowerShell 7 do osiągania własnych korzyści, a to sprawia, że PowerShell 7 dla profesjonalistów IT jest niezbędnym przewodnikiem dla wszystkich administratorów systemów Windows. • Zapoznaj się ze środowiskiem administracyjnym powłoki PowerShell 7 • Dowiedz się, w jaki sposób nowe środowisko wpływa na obsługę raportowania • Naucz się automatyzować różne zadania za pomocą PowerShell 7 • Naucz się korzystać z PowerShell 7 z pomocą rzeczywistych przykładów i przykładowego kodu O AUTORZE THOMAS LEE jest konsultantem, autorem i trenerem IT z wieloma certyfikatami Microsoft. Został odznaczony tytułem Microsoft MVP aż 17 razy. Napisał wiele książek o TCP/IP i PowerShell. Obecnie pomaga klientom w organizacji szkoleń i tworzeniu materiałów szkoleniowych. Nadal pracuje dla społeczności jako administrator grupy na forum PowerShell w witrynie Spiceworks, gdzie jest także moderatorem strony.

PowerShell 7 Workshop. Learn how to program with PowerShell 7 on Windows, Linux, and the Raspberry Pi

Nick Parlow

Discover the capabilities of PowerShell 7 for your everyday tasks with this carefully paced tutorial that will help you master this versatile programming language.The first set of chapters will show you where to find and how to install the latest version of PowerShell, providing insights into the distinctive features that set PowerShell apart from other languages. You’ll then learn essential programming concepts such as variables and control flow, progressing to their applications. As you advance, you’ll work with files and APIs, writing scripts, functions, and modules. You’ll also gain proficiency in securing your PowerShell environment before venturing into different operating systems.Enriched with detailed practical examples tailored for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Raspberry Pi, each chapter weaves real-world scenarios to ignite your imagination and cement the principles you learn. You’ll be able to reinforce your understanding through self-assessment questions and delve deeper into the principles using comprehensive reading lists.By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to use PowerShell for physical computing and writing scripts for Windows administration.

PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks. The art of automating and managing Windows environments

Michael Shepard, Chendrayan Venkatesan, Sherif Talaat, Brenton J.W. Blawat

Are you tired of managing Windows administrative tasks manually and are looking to automate the entire process? If yes, then this is the right course for you. This learning path starts your PowerShell journey and will help you automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows. It will get you up and running with PowerShell, taking you from the basics of installation to writing scripts and performing web server automation. You will explore the PowerShell environment and discover how to use cmdlets, functions, and scripts to automate Windows systems. The next installment of the course focuses on gaining concrete knowledge of Windows PowerShell scripting to perform professional-level scripting. The techniques here are packed with PowerShell scripts and sample C# code to automate tasks. You will use .NET classes in PowerShell and C# to manage Exchange Online. In the final section, you will delve into real-world examples to learn how to simplify the management of your Windows environment. You will get to grips with PowerShell’s advanced functions and how to most effectively administer your system. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: [*] Getting Started with PowerShell by Michael Shepard [*] Windows PowerShell for .Net Developers Second Edition by Chendrayan Venkatesan and Sherif Talaat[*] Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting by Brenton J.W. Blawat