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Revision Date Version Changes 13/01/2021 1.0 Initial Document 22/01/2020 1.1 Added HA and single deployment diagrams in Section 7 08/02/2021 1.2 Ammended supported browsers …

There are several ways that HA can be provided for the Portal including Auto Scaling Groups. The simplest method is to make an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of your appliance. 1. Log into your Amazon Web Services EC2 site using your administrative…

Database

High Availability » Database

To achieve database HA we recommend deploying AWS RDS Microsoft SQL Server into at least 2 Availability Zones. After deploying RDS you will need to do the following actions: • Change the registry key ‘Portal’ to point to the RDS database cluster…

HTTPS/TLS Encryption

Appendices » HTTPS/TLS Encryption

To configure HTTPS/TLS encryption in front of the WorkSpaces Manager Appliance, you can add a Network Load Balancer as explained below. If you have not created a Network Load Balancer, refer to it create one NLB. Now that we have a friendly hostname, we can associate…

WorkSpaces Portal Requirements

Software requirements » WorkSpaces Portal Requirements

Platforms Support Windows Server 2012 R2/2016/2019. Only 64-bit versions where applicable are supported. Both physical and virtual instances are also supported. Additional Software • Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.6.2 or higher • Microsoft SQL Server Express or…

AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

WSM from AMI » AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

At this point, we are ready to launch the instance from the custom AMI that has been shared with your account and region by Nuvens. The AMI is based on Windows 2019 with 2 volumes (C:\ with 75GB and D:\ with 20 GB). We will use our new Security Group and the EC2…

Active Directory Service Account

Prerequisites for the installation of the WorkSpaces Manager appliance » Active Directory Service Account

When adding the AD Service Account to support AWS WorkSpaces you will have to provide an account with permissions to create computer objects within AD to the OU specified at the time. • See Administrator Active Directory Permissions for details We recommend using…

SES Configuration

Appendices » SES Configuration

To configure AWS Simple Email Service (SES) as a SMTP Relay for WorkSpaces Manager, we will need to do the following steps: 1) DNS Domain to be used as sender 2) Create DNS records as requested 3) Create SMTP Credentials 4) Test emails 5) Configure WSM First, navigate…

CloudWatch Log Group

Appendices » CloudWatch Log Group

Go to CloudWatch Click on “Events” > “Rules” Click on the button “Create rule” In the “Rule Detail”, we put a “Name” and “Description” and leave the default configuration as shown below: In the “Event…

WorkSpaces Client Disconnection after idle time

WorkSpaces Performance Monitor Agent » WorkSpaces Client Disconnection after idle time

Introduction In the context of Amazon WorkSpaces, “idle time” refers to the period during which a user is not actively using their virtual desktop or workspace session, but if the client software is open, this is not detected because the PCoIP or WSP client is…