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Setting up Windows Deployment Services
Overview Microsoft’s Windows Deployment Services (WDS) along with Mobile Deployment Toolkit (MDT) are extremely powerful and versatile tools for deploying windows operating systems in the enterprise. These tool sets allow you to deploy customized and fully configured operating systems over a network. These tool-sets are perfect for many different sized enterprise markets that are looking for a way to deploy standardized operating system configurations in their environment. In this guide, we will be covering the ability to deploy a fresh Windows 10 Professional/Enterprise image and customize it,and install software applications to the machine.
SoftEther – Basic Setup
Overview: SoftEther VPN is one of the most versatile VPN clients I have used. Although clunky at times, it is one of the most reliable VPN clients to use, other than Cisco AnyConnect. SoftEther client and server applications will run on Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Not only does SoftEther offer a client VPN application, it offers support for site-site VPN’s, OpenVPN clone, Microsoft Remote Access clone, and other protocals. With support for authentication through AD, RADIUS, Certificates, and standard username/password combinations, it seems like the perfect VPN solution for nearly anyone. In this guide, I will be walking through installing the server software on Windows and Linux. Both are extremely strait forward. Installing SoftEther – Windows Installing the
Jitsi Meet – Meeting Host Authenticatoin
Overview: By default, Jitsi Meet allows any user to create a conference room. Most people operating a Jitsi Meet instance most likely would prefer to only allow authenticated users create conference rooms. This guide will walk you through Jitsi Meet’s built in authentication option, Prosody. Configuring Authentication Jitsi Meet automatically installs prosody when installing the stable package. Please note from here on, yourdomain will identify your fully qualified domain name assigned to the server (e.g meet.randomtech.io) The first step will be to modify a configuration file: sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/yourdomain.cfg.lua Edit this line: …authentication = “anonymous”… To this: …authentication = “internal_plain”… By adding that line, you told Jitsi Meet to force users to authenticate with a username and password to start
Jitsi Meet – Basic Setup
Overview: Jitsi Meet is an encrypted and open source video conferencing platform. With minimal setup out of the box, it can be deployed in minutes. It offers application free video conferencing through WebRTC, and works on most popular/modern web browsers. For being such a small project, the developers of Jitsi have built in tons of features, making Jitsi one of the easiest videoconferencing platforms I have ever used. Installing Jitsi Meet: For this example I am using a cloud hosted server with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed on it. First step is to configure the domain name of the server. Change jitsi.yourdomain to your desired domain information (e.g. meet.randomtech.io) sudo hostnamectl set-hostname jitsi.yourdomain You will want to also set the local
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