Setting the Hostname in a SysPreped AMI
A guide to automating hostname configuration for Windows AMIs using PowerShell and EC2 tags during the SysPrep specialize phase.
Brian Beach is a developer advocate, speaker, and author leading the Developer Experience community at AWS, helping teams improve productivity with infrastructure as code, DevOps, and generative AI.
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A guide to automating hostname configuration for Windows AMIs using PowerShell and EC2 tags during the SysPrep specialize phase.
A technical guide on using PowerShell to download and analyze AWS billing reports from S3, focusing on cost and usage data.
A technical guide on using AWS CloudTrail, S3, SNS, SQS, and PowerShell to process and route AWS API event logs for automation.
A guide to configuring Fiddler as a proxy server to debug HTTP/HTTPS traffic from an iPhone or iPad on a Windows machine.
Explains how IIS handles SSL with host headers, focusing on wildcard certificates and resolving common HTTPS binding errors.
A technical guide on creating a full trust proxy for SharePoint 2010 to allow sandboxed code to write to the Windows Event Log.
Analysis of how multi-tenant architecture dramatically reduces IT infrastructure costs compared to physical servers and virtualization.
A technical guide on using PowerShell to create and configure an anonymous web application in SharePoint 2010, including site collection setup.
A technical tutorial on using PowerShell to create and manage SharePoint 2010 site collections, including separate content databases.
A technical tutorial on using PowerShell to create a web application and site collection in SharePoint 2010.
A technical guide on using PowerShell scripts to create and configure a new SharePoint 2010 server farm, including database setup and central administration.
A SharePoint 2010 PowerShell script for creating Host Header Site Collections fails to automatically create the required IIS binding, requiring a manual workaround.