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After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2.
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By Tom Fenton
See what four features piqued Tom's interest in the new Extended Service Branch (ESB) Maintenance Release.
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By Tom Fenton
In demonstrating some monitoring software, Tom needed to replicate a slow network that was being used in a VDI environment. Here's how he did it.
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Brien demonstrates the process of upgrading AWS EC2 instances running Windows Server 2012 R2 to newer OSes.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously installing Linux on VMs in three systems, Tom installs the VMware Horizon native client on them to see how they perform.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom shows how to install Ubuntu 20.04 on a wide range of systems, install the Horizon native client and use the systems to connect to remote desktops.
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While it would be a bad idea to host a mission-critical workload on spot instances, they're great for dev/test environments or for workloads that do not have strict SLAs.
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By Tom Fenton
After earlier detailing how to use a .bat file to launch the Horizon client to a Horizon desktop and then adding start-up functionality to the taskbar and Start menu, Tom Fenton turns to Linux.
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The point of AVNM is to give you a centralized way to manage connectivity and security policy, scoped to subscriptions or management groups for your entire Azure estate.
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Brien walks through the process of creating an IAM role for the AWS Fault Injection Simulator in order to find out what happens when an EC2 spot instance is interrupted.
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By Tom Fenton
After earlier showing how to launch the Horizon Client to a Horizon desktop using a .bat file, Tom explores what else can be done with it.
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If an organization uses spot instances as a means of providing extra capacity for EC2 workloads, it must consider what will happen if a spot instance is interrupted.
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One of the big advantages to using AWS as a management platform for your IoT devices is that you can create security profiles that are able to generate alerts in response to conditions that might indicate a security issue.
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Brien Posey provides step-by-step instructions to install an agent onto a device so that AWS can discover and manage it.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton started this four-part series because he was interested in the Oracle Cloud's new ability to offer Arm-based compute instances, but limited "Always Free" capacity leads to disappointment in the final installment.
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Brien Posey explains how to manage AWS "things" -- digital representations of IoT devices -- by categorize them so they can be easily tracked.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton decides to set up and test the network between a VM and the outside world after previously detailing the Oracle Cloud's "Always Free" offering and using VMs as a web server.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton details the web server work he did in his experiment to use an "Always Free" Ubuntu 18.04 VM on Oracle Cloud to host a small web site.
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By Tom Fenton
To get a feel for the Oracle Cloud, Tom Fenton shows how easy it is to sign up for and create a web site on an x86 VM and a desktop on an Arm VM, here using the "Always Free" option.
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Brien Posey explains the process, which can help you to better manage data growth and the corresponding cost, along with providing other benefits.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware makes it possible to launch the Horizon client from the command line and specify the desired screen resolution.
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By Tom Fenton
Multimedia redirection can greatly increase the number of virtual desktops your VDI hosts can accommodate and lower the cost of your VDI environment.
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Primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Lightsail now can used as a container hosting platform.
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'Azure Lighthouse changed the game for managed service offers for Azure, and I think this new service will do the same for M365.'
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Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform.