This week I was mostly working on securing Windows 10 built 1703
enterprise image. It’s unbelievable how hard the customers pushed to use the
product the vendor way. It really comes to hardcore tweaking and almost hacking
the OS. Collection of few hardening URLs
that I come across and might help others are here:
- Disable Edge Icon in IE – https://goo.gl/AHexYK
- Disable EDGE start pages - https://goo.gl/u4Wf8f
- Customizing Start Menu through XML file - https://goo.gl/PSTqfV
- PowerShell script to remove “Standard Applications” that have are very similar to Office 365 products (Mail, Calendar, Skype, Notes etc) - https://goo.gl/4FeQjZ
- Very helpful set of Microsoft assets for hardening Windows 10 (v1703) - https://goo.gl/NfTdEa
- Previous version of the URL above with more details on differences between 1608 and 1703- https://goo.gl/wKXkJ6
The second project that was touched by me (not planned) is Google Cloud
Platform (GCP). It started with preparing my refresh of Mesos/Marathon Tutorial
that
I did run already in 2015 just before Openstack summit in Vancouver. The tutorial
that time required Vagrant to run locally, vagrant was using Oracle VM Box. In 2015
I wanted to use VMware Workstation and bought Vagrant module for VMware workstation
and spent some time tweaking it to get the tutorial running. This week when
started reviewing preparation steps I discovered that now AWS, GCP and others can be used. I have a significant amount of free
GCP credits – so I started setting up Mesos in GCP.
I’m almost done with the setup and will blog about it when it’s
all working. But the experience so far was BREATHTAKING – I can’t stop saying “this
is so cool” to myself while deploying VMs in GCP, configuring automation
through Ansible and deploying Mesosphere pieces.
Switching topics - I was approached a colleague of mine,
virtualization architect and former customer with the question around VMware Storage
VMotion traffic flow in NFS Environment. It was interesting research project
and I’m writing about my blog post on Packet Pushers
Finally few awesome reads for this week:
- VMware Cloud on AWS – Network Architecture technical details https://goo.gl/Wkv2Bc
- Microsoft Ignite on Azure session from the father of Power Shell - https://goo.gl/hAz1tr
- Releasing VMworld Hands-on labs – (HOLs are the best free technical training I ever experienced) - https://goo.gl/Z8Mnj5
- Packet Pushers Show 358: The NSX Future With VMware (Sponsored) - https://goo.gl/bPtf3e
- Excellent bundle sale of Security books - https://goo.gl/5wmx3w
- Good review of the container orchestration products – Mesos, Swarm and Kubernetes - https://goo.gl/yNF5ne
- A day in the life of a docker admn - https://goo.gl/Pka4oL
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