Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud

Preface;
Intended Audience;
Organization of This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Acknowledgments;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Chapter 1: To the Cloud!;
1.1 Who I Think You Are and Why I Think You Care;
1.2 Introducing Amazon Web Services;
1.3 The Plan of Attack;
1.4 Setting Up the Domain and DNS;
1.5 Setting Up Your Security Credentials;
1.6 Setting Up Your First Virtual Private Cloud;
1.7 Standing Up Your First Server Instance;
1.8 Understanding and Configuring Your VPN Server;
1.9 Your New Topology;
1.10 Wrapping Up;
Chapter 2: Directories, Controllers, and Authorities—Oh My!;
2.1 So Young for Such a Big Promotion!;
2.2 Configuring the Default VPC DHCP to Play Nice with Your New Domain;
2.3 Creating Your Own Certificate Authority;
2.4 Wrapping Up;
Chapter 3: Let There Be Email!;
3.1 Setting Up the Instance;
3.2 Installing Exchange;
3.3 Configuring Your New Mail Beast for Incoming Messages;
3.4 Configuring Outgoing Mail;
3.5 Telling the Outside World About Yourself;
3.6 Wrapping Up;
Chapter 4: Doing Things the Easy Way;
4.1 Introducing the EC2 API Command Line Tools;
4.2 Downloading, Installing, and Configuring the Tools;
4.3 Downloading and Importing a Test Image;
4.4 Cleaning Up and Wrapping Up;
Chapter 5: Do You Have Some Time to Chat?;
5.1 Chat? Really? Isn’t That So 1990s?;
5.2 One Standard to Rule Them All;
5.3 Configuring the Network;
5.4 Installing and Configuring Your XMPP Client;
5.5 Wrapping Up;
Chapter 6: The Voice of a New Generation;
6.1 Enter SIP;
6.2 Picking and Installing a PBX Package;
6.3 Making VoIP Calls;
6.4 Wrapping Up;
Chapter 7: Keeping Your Network Fit, Trim, and Healthy;
7.1 Regular Backups;
7.2 Monitoring;
7.3 System Updates;
7.4 PBX Module Updates;
7.5 Recovering from Disaster;
7.6 Wrapping Up;
Chapter 8: For Those About to Grok, We Salute You;
8.1 Building a PBX from Scratch on a Stock Amazon AMI;
8.2 Inside SSH—The Really Useful Edition;
8.3 Really, Really Wrapping Up;