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In enterprise application deployments to SharePoint, there are generally farms, or web applications that host specific applications for specific groups, rather than having just an all-in-one deployment. Often times, you do not have access to these other environments, and will need to pass the deployment baton off to the system administrators of those farms.
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
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Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
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Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
5. The common problem
● Missing, incomplete or outdated documentation
● Lack of comprehensive reporting tools
● Reporting tools are inconsistent in output, style and formatting
● Manually generating documentation is time consuming and
error prone
● Every environment is different
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6. ● Be simple to build, maintain, deploy and use
● Be consistent in operation, styling and output formats
● Be modular to work with different vendors and technologies
● Be granular to provide diverse levels of detail
● Be automated to generate documents quickly and easily
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🔨
7. As Built
Report
A configuration document framework
which uses Windows PowerShell to
generate as-built documentation in
multiple document formats.
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8. PowerShell Modules
As Built Report is installable from
the PowerShell Gallery, providing a
quick and simple method to install
and update
What’s new with
As Built Report?
GitHub Organization
Moving to a GitHub organization
allows each report to have its own
repository, management and
project independence
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9. Multiple Document Formats
DOC, HTML, XML, Text
Custom Formatting
Style documents to your look & feel
Tailor the report information detail level
Health Checks
Highlight configuration issues
Timestamps
Append date and time to filename
Email Delivery
Attach and send reports via email
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As Built Report
10. Customise the style &
configuration
As Built Configuration
Configure settings of the
report such as company
information, user folder
and email settings.
Report Configuration
Set the level of detail to
report on by section.
Enable or disable health
checks to highlight
configuration issues.
Configure additional
options for the report
type.
Report Styles
Use a default style or
create your own to match
your corporate identity.
Set page orientation, text
and table formatting with
fonts, colours, borders
and highlighted
cells/rows.
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11. Generating an As Built
Report in 4 easy steps
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1
Open Windows
PowerShell console
Ensure PowerShell version 5.0 or
higher is installed.
Install Vendor
PowerShell cmdlets
Ensure that you have your
vendor’s PowerShell cmdlets
pre-installed
2
Install-Module
AsBuiltReport
Install AsBuiltReport module
from PowerShell Gallery
3
New-AsBuiltReport
Run New-AsBuiltReport specifying
the –Report, -Target, -Credential,
-Format, -OutputPath and other
parameters
4
12. Multi vCenter Support
Multiple Sections
vCenter, Resource Pools, Clusters, Hosts,
Network, vSAN, Datastores, Datastore
Clusters, VMs, Update Manager
6 Information Detail Levels
Disabled, Summary*, Informative,
Detailed, Adv Detailed, Comprehensive
Health Checks
Toggle health checks on/off individually
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VMware vSphere
Report
* Future Release
14. Place your screenshot here
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Contribute
to the
project
Provide feedback, raise
issues, suggest new
features, develop new
reports.
https://github.com/AsBuiltReport
15. Let’s review some concepts
Simple to Deploy & Use
Installable from the
PowerShell Gallery.
Uses common toolsets which
are widely available and
adopted.
Supports Multiple
Reports
As Built Report is a
configuration document
framework that can support
one to many reports.
Supports Multiple
Document Formats
Generate reports in MS Word,
HTML, XML or Text.
MS Word does not need to be
installed to generate reports.
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Customisable
Customise the look and feel of
the report.
Specify different
configurations for different
environments.
Fully Automated
Generate documentation
which is accurate and
current in a consistent
and automated fashion.
Open Source
Free to use.
Contribute to the project
to improve it’s
functionality and
capabilities.
16. What’s next?
● Rewrite existing as built reports
○ Nutanix
○ Cisco UCS
● Develop new as built reports (these are some on the ToDo list)
○ VMware Site Recovery Manager, vRealize Operations &
vRealize Automation
○ HPE Nimble & iLO
○ DELL EMC Isilon, iDRAC, OpenManage
● PowerShell Core Functionality Testing
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Thanks!
Want more information?
Twitter @AsBuiltReport
Blog www.timcarman.net/as-built-report
Slack VMware {code} or PowerShell Slack
GitHub github.com/AsBuiltReport
