“Someone may pull you aside and ask you about your interest in the open SA position.” My boss quietly dropped that bomb on me during a team dinner one night after an AWS training event. Up until that point, I had been enjoying my time outside of work hanging out and joking around with my […]
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A standard procedure in any VDI deployment is to create a customized “gold image”. A gold image is simply a template machine on which the computing environment (OS, updates, applications, etc.) is customized to meet the needs of an organization, and this image then serves as the foundation from which copies/virtual desktops are built. There
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In order to join an AWS WorkSpace to and then login using existing “on-prem” Active Directory domain credentials, a WorkSpace directory using an AD Connector must be created. Amazon WorkSpaces uses a directory to store and manage information for your WorkSpaces and users. AD Connector Prerequisites Before jumping directly into creating the AD Connector, be
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Recently, two events got me thinking more and more about AWS WorkSpaces. What is AWS Workspaces? Basically it’s VDI on AWS, but here’s the official AWS definition/description: Amazon WorkSpaces enables you to provision virtual, cloud-based Microsoft Windows or Amazon Linux desktops for your users, known as WorkSpaces. Amazon WorkSpaces eliminates the need to procure and deploy
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