With only limited trial fundings, I like to try and combine as much learning as I can into a single project as I can. Since the AWS acquisition, I have been anxious to try the CloudEndure migration solution out hands on. My goal was to setup a SharePoint 2019 w/ SQL Server 2016 backend environment … Read more
I’ll give my standard disclaimer, that these are my views and only my views and any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. I often speak about cloud computing and I tried to make sense out of the many different audience reactions I was getting. I was (and still am) excited about all the cloud can … Read more
AWS just announced support for UDP in their Network Load Balancer.https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-udp-load-balancing-for-network-load-balancer/ We can take advantage of this right away to make our Microsoft NPS servers with the Azure MFA extension (MFA in the cloud) highly available within our AWS environment. If you are already invested in Office 365, it makes sense to take advantage of … Read more
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a highly-available and disaster indifferent remote access architecture using Microsoft DirectAccess on AWS. Everything fails all the time – Dr. Werner Vogel While we can’t control when things will fail, we certainly can develop architectures that are resilient enough to handle those failures. Stephen … Read more
At some point (pre-2012), I signed up for G-Suite that had a limited but free set of services. I’ve continued to use those services, but wondered if I could federate this into my AWS environment. Seemed simple enough. You will need admin permissions both in your AWS account as well as G-Suite. G-Suite Steps Log … Read more
AWS to Azure Connectivity Several years ago I ran through an exercise of connecting AWS to Azure. At the time, I used an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running OpenSWAN on the AWS side to a virtual gateway on the Azure side. I wanted to try this time just using the managed VPN services on both … Read more