Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud by Rensin, David K. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Preface

Intended Audience Organization of This Book Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Acknowledgments Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

1. To the Cloud!

Who I Think You Are and Why I Think You Care Introducing Amazon Web Services The Plan of Attack Setting Up the Domain and DNS Setting Up Your Security Credentials Setting Up Your First Virtual Private Cloud Standing Up Your First Server Instance

Choosing Your VPN Configuration Picking an AMI and Launching It Into Your VPC Connecting for the First Time

Understanding and Configuring Your VPN Server

Creating Your Own Client Certificate Setting Up Your Client Machine and Connecting for the First Time Tidying Up and Connecting for the First Time

Your New Topology Wrapping Up

2. Directories, Controllers, and Authorities—Oh My!

So Young for Such a Big Promotion!

Changing the Name Promoting the Instance to an Active Directory Server A Few Words About DNS and DHCP

The “normal” The “new normal”

Configuring the Default VPC DHCP to Play Nice with Your New Domain

Changing the VPC DHCP Option Set Reconnecting with RDP

Creating Your Own Certificate Authority Wrapping Up

3. Let There Be Email!

Setting Up the Instance Installing Exchange Configuring Your New Mail Beast for Incoming Messages Configuring Outgoing Mail Telling the Outside World About Yourself

Revisiting Your Security Rules and Firewall Getting the Rest of the World to Send You Mail

Wrapping Up

4. Doing Things the Easy Way

Introducing the EC2 API Command Line Tools Downloading, Installing, and Configuring the Tools

Creating a Client Certificate Setting Up Your Environment

Downloading and Importing a Test Image Cleaning Up and Wrapping Up

5. Do You Have Some Time to Chat?

Chat? Really? Isn’t That So 1990s? One Standard to Rule Them All

Step 1: Picking an XMPP Server Step 2: Downloading and Installing Configuration

Configuring the Network

Windows Has a Firewall? Enabling the VPC

Installing and Configuring Your XMPP Client

Mac OS X Windows Receiving Your First Message

Wrapping Up

6. The Voice of a New Generation

Enter SIP Picking and Installing a PBX Package

The Contenders Picking an Asterisk Distribution Installing the PBX

Finding and launching the instance into the VPC Securing the instance

The Basics of Administration and Configuration

Modules Extensions Conference bridges Trunks

SIPStation Skype

Configuring Secure SIP with TLS and SRTP Detecting and dealing with hacking attempts

Configuring the Network for VoIP

Making VoIP Calls

Blink (PC/Mac) Bria (iPhone/iPad/Android)

Wrapping Up

7. Keeping Your Network Fit, Trim, and Healthy

Regular Backups

Automated EC2 Backups

Monitoring System Updates

SSH: Your New Best Friend From a Mac or Linux Machine From Windows Setting Up Daily Updates

PBX Module Updates Recovering from Disaster

Restoring an Instance to a Previous Snapshot Creating a New Instance from a Snapshot

Wrapping Up

8. For Those About to Grok, We Salute You

Building a PBX from Scratch on a Stock Amazon AMI Inside SSH—The Really Useful Edition

Teleportation SSH as a Poor Man’s VPN

Really, Really Wrapping Up

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