Hi, I have to say I've had difficulties getting cloud installations working on an automated fashion. I think it had something to do with the way I was running the installation. I tried running it via some login scripts and also via a CLI VM task in Azure. I did get to a point where I had a running JFW but it kept complaining about video drivers, when talking to S&S (UK distributor) they said it was because there wasn't enough VRAM available. My recent work in Windows is now a bit limited, but anything I did remotely I did via scripts which I could run easily and get output in particular files, or use remote MMCs like Server Manager and other remote admin tools which meant I didn't have to RDP to the server. This may potentially change as security are always going on about us accessing servers (even Linux boxes or Kubernetes) via Windows bastion boxes using RDP which is going to be a significant game changer for me. If I was forced down the route of using a bastion I was potentially looking at building a VM image with JFW pre-loaded, building the image using Packer and DSC. I have some jobs that do this already with Linux and Ansible, but not Windows. Whether you would want to use that as a generalised server build for mainline workloads is another matter. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Jared Stofflett <stofflet@gmail.com> Sent: 29 January 2021 19:47 To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: What is the best way to access Windows server 2012 and 2016 instances in the cloud? Do you have any examples of group policy to automatically install Jaws? I won't be doing the builds but it sounds like we will have enough servers that we will be building them with automation instead of manually. On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:01 PM Ryan Shugart <rshugart@ryanshugart.com> wrote:
Hi Jared: I've never used Oracle Cloud before, but have done this with Azure quite a bit and have had good success. If you can get RDP to work then you should be able to get a copy of JAWS installed and use remote access just as normal. In fact, if you can get remote audio enabled, you can use Narrator to navigate to and then run the talking install and be all good. Hope this helps. Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Jared Stofflett <stofflet@gmail.com> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators < blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 5:31 AM To: blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] What is the best way to access Windows server 2012 and 2016 instances in the cloud?
I've started a new job and may need to access Windows server 2012 and 2016 instances in Oracle cloud. What is the best way to do this? My thought is to have group policy install Jaws with remote access. Although I'm an NVDA user I don't want to be installing the remote access add-on into servers. I'm also not sold on the Unicorn remote access solution since I have not heard much about it good or bad. In my limited experience remote desktop with Jaws was pretty reliable. Thanks for any advice. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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