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HOW TO UPDATE FIREFOX TO THE LATEST VERSION

Quick how-to for updating Firefox with screenshots included.

Open Firefox

Click the hamburger icon (shown below) which is in the top right of your computer screen

Click Help (shown below) then select About

If there is an update, it will show here, if the update is installed you will need to restart the browser as shown. And that is it!

INSTALL AND RUN CISA SCUBAGEAR

Quick How-To on installing and running the app

First – Get Global Administrator permissions to the M365 Tenant

Second – Open a browser and login into it using the newly created Global Administrator Account

Next Download SCuBAGear from – https://github.com/cisagov/ScubaGear

Open PowerShell as an Administrator (right click and select this) on the computer that you will run SCuBAGear from

cd C:\directory\ScubaGear-main\
To the directory you installed SCuBAGear

Type
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass

Type
.\SetUp.ps1

Type
cd PowerShell\ScubaGear

Type
Import-Module -Name ScubaGear

Type:
Disconnect-SCuBATenant

Type:
cd ..\..\utils

Type:
Invoke-Scuba

Type:
.\RunSCuBA.ps1

Login as your Global Admin account

The report will run!

INSTALL ESXI 8 ON INTEL NUC 12

Here is how I was able to install ESXi 8 onto my Intel NUC 12 Wall Street Canyon

Press Power Button

Press F2 to get into the BIOS

Navigate to the Power, Performance and Cooling tab

Select External Ambient Temperature

Set to User Defined

Mouse over to Performance and click on it

Set the number of E-Cores to 0

F10 to save and Exit BIOS

Now you can reboot and install ESXi

UPGRADE UBUNTU 20.04 TO 22.04

Quick how-to run and upgrade from the command line

Do not SSH into the server. Use KVM or a local connection to the server

Login

sudo bash

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

do-release-upgrade

The server will upgrade to the latest version

INSTALL COMPOSER 2 ON UBUNTU 20.04

Quick How-To for getting composer 2 to work since composer 1 has been deprecated

Login to a terminal

sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt install php-cli unzip
exit
cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o /tmp/composer-setup.php

HASH=`curl -sS https://composer.github.io/installer.sig`

echo hash

php -r “if (hash_file(‘SHA384’, ‘/tmp/composer-setup.php’) === ‘$HASH’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } echo PHP_EOL;”

Installer will be verified

sudo php /tmp/composer-setup.php –install-dir=/usr/local/bin –filename=composer

Composer will download and install

Then Type:
composer

You should see a Composer info screen

UPGRADE MAUTIC ON UBUNTU 20.04

Quick how-to on the way I upgraded mautic, since upgrading through the web breaks my installations every time.

Login into your Virtualmin

Backup all of your virtual servers

Download the backups to your pc

Open Putty

SSH to Server

sudo su –

cd to your mautic directory (/home/user/html)

php bin/console mautic:update:find

php bin/console mautic:update:apply

php bin/console mautic:update:apply –finish

Open your mautic installation, refresh the web page, check the bottom right, and you will see the latest version. In my case it is 4.4.8

EMAIL WARMING USING POWER AUTOMATE – SENDING FROM DOMAIN

For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.

Login into Office.com

Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen

Select Power Automate

Click My Flows

Click +New Flow

Select Scheduled Cloud Flow

Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run

Click Next

Click + Next Step

Type in mail and press Enter

Select Send EMAIL V3

Put in the FROM address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com

Enter in a To Address for another email you own, that is off domain from the domain you are warming up.
ex: tacticalwarexyz123@gmail.com

Enter in a Subject

Add some Text to the Body

Click Save

Test your Flow, and email should go though now.

Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.

EMAIL WARMING USING POWER AUTOMATE – SENDING TO DOMAIN

For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.

Login into Office.com

Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen

Select Power Automate

Click My Flows

Click +New Flow

Select Scheduled Cloud Flow

Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run

Click Next

Click + Next Step

Type in mail and press Enter

Select Send an Email V2

Put in the address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com

Enter in a Subject

Add some Text to the Body

Click Save

Test your Flow, and email should go though now.

Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.

GODADDY – BACKUP DNS ZONE

Here is how to backup your DNS information in GoDaddy

Login into your account

Navigate to https://dcc.godaddy.com/control/portfolio

Identify the Domain name you want to backup

Click the three dots next to it “

Select Edit DNS

On the DNS MANAGEMENT page, next to the ADD button, click the Three Dots “

Select Export Zone File

Your DNS will backup to your computer.

Save it to somewhere special, and go on your merry way