AWS is innovating fast. This is a summary of what happened during past month. Announcements and News CloudFormation adds support for EC2 Dedicated Hosts, improves handling of ECS and allows you to specify a name for a Lambda function. (Official Announcement) Define CloudWatch event rules with CloudFormation. (Official Announcement) Kinesis Firehose adds Elasticsearch as additional […]
Archives for April 2016
Avoid security credentials on GitHub
Your AWS account is a valuable target for bad guys. With access to your security credentials an attacker is potential able to steal sensitive data, utilize resources on your costs, or sabotage your infrastructure. Two years ago AWS and their customers observed that bad guys started to crawl public GitHub repositories for security credentials granting […]
Free ebook: Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud
DZone published a new guide: Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud. It contains an article from Michael and me: Building Blocks for Highly Available Systems on AWS. The ebook contains the following articles: Fullstack Engineering in the Age of Hybrid Cloud The Step-By-Step Guide for Keeping Your Cloud Applications Secure Building Blocks for Highly […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Automated Desktop Pool [Part 7]
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Part 7 of the series we will be creating a Automated Desktop Pool using Full Desktops. vBoring Blog Series: VMware Horizon View 7: Deployment and Installation VMware Horizon View 7: Apply SSL Certificates VMware Horizon View 7: Create Events Database VMware Horizon View 7: Add Microsoft RDS Farm VMware Horizon View 7: Setup Remote Access through Security […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Create Master Desktop Template [Part 6]
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Part 6 of the series we will be creating a ‘golden’ master desktop template to use for our View Desktop pools. I will be creating a Windows 10 template but you could use any Windows version you wish! vBoring Blog Series: VMware Horizon View 7: Deployment and Installation VMware Horizon View 7: Apply SSL Certificates VMware […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Setup Remote Access through Security Server [Part 5]
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Part 5 of the series will be configuring the environment so Horizon View can be accessed remotely. There are some ports that need to be opened up on your firewall to the Security Server. As every environment is different I will show how my environment looks so you can mirror it. vBoring Blog Series: VMware Horizon […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Add Microsoft RDS Farm [Part 4]
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In part 4 of the series we will be adding a existing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services farm to Horizon View 7. This enables RDS application to be published out using Horizon View 7 taking advantage of the PCoIP protocol, View Management, and creates a single pane of glass to access applications and virtual desktops. vBoring Blog […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Create Events Database [Part 3]
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Part 3 of the series will be creating the Events database. Horizon View uses the events database as a repository to store logging information such as user connections. Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database servers are supported. For my environment I will be using SQL Server 2014. This step can be skipped if you do not […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Apply SSL Certificates [Part 2]
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In Part 2 of this series I will be switching the Connection & Security Servers default SSL certificates to trusted SSL certificates. Once you obtain the replacement certificates the swap is very simple and easy! You can jump to Part 3 if you are just testing View in your environment and have no care if the […]
Antivirus for S3 Buckets
Many of our AWS consultancy clients ask me: “How can we make sure that the files that we store on S3 are virus free?” As always, our clients are looking for simple and cheap solutions. That’s why I developed S3 VirusScan. Every file that is added to an S3 bucket is automatically scanned. The S3 […]