Using PowerShell to work with SSL Certificates

At my office we have a certificate renewal process that happens every other year.  This year, we have a plan to document the location of all of the certificates that are installed on the servers to help the next time the renewal happens.  So I have worked out a quick and simply one liner that will get all of the certificates installed on the server in the LOCALMACHINE\My certificate store.… Continue reading

Installing PowerShell on Linux Ubuntu

Now that Microsoft has made PowerShell open source it can be installed on Mac OS X and Linux.  In this article I’ll discuss the steps on installing it on Linux Ubuntu.

Step 1 – Download the package

As  seen in the image above, I have the newest distro of Ubuntu.  The first step into getting PowerShell installed is downloading the package from Github as it hasn’t been added to any of the repositories yet.… Continue reading