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Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

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Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#41

I didn't know big tech companies were still capable of making GUI's that look like this.

To me it looks very much like mRemoteNG (https://mremoteng.org/). Is this just because the same WinForms libraries were used or is there some meat to this?

Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#43

I'm sorry if this sounds completely ridiculous to some people, but what do people use RDP/Windows server for in 2021? Given that ASP/Dotnet is portable to linux, what are people building that isn't better deployed to linux? It can't just be the legacy use-case, can it?

Remote browser isolation for companies that need Microsoft.

Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#45

I'm sorry if this sounds completely ridiculous to some people, but what do people use RDP/Windows server for in 2021? Given that ASP/Dotnet is portable to linux, what are people building that isn't better deployed to linux? It can't just be the legacy use-case, can it?

The answer is one (or most likely all of) these: active directory, sharepoint, exchange

Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#46

I'm sorry if this sounds completely ridiculous to some people, but what do people use RDP/Windows server for in 2021? Given that ASP/Dotnet is portable to linux, what are people building that isn't better deployed to linux? It can't just be the legacy use-case, can it?

.NET Core might be portable, however it is a tiny subset of what .NET Framework is capable of.

Additionally lots of enterprise shops, despite what HN crowd thinks, are mostly on Microsoft stacks, so that .NET application is going to connect to other APIs and stuff not available on GNU/Linux.

Then, many companies use VMs as desktops for contractors, you are just not allowed to plug anything on their network, so you are using Visual Studio via RDP/Citrix.

As an example, in life sciences most of the laboratory hardware only has APIs available via COM/.NET Framework.

Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#47

Why are we still building tools to hand manage VMs in 2021? Am I missing something or is this for raising pets instead of heading cattle[0]? 0. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...

Because not everyone is on the latest fashion.

Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#48

Why are we still building tools to hand manage VMs in 2021? Am I missing something or is this for raising pets instead of heading cattle[0]? 0. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...

Farmers keep both sheep dogs and sheep...

Re: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

#49

I'm sorry if this sounds completely ridiculous to some people, but what do people use RDP/Windows server for in 2021? Given that ASP/Dotnet is portable to linux, what are people building that isn't better deployed to linux? It can't just be the legacy use-case, can it?

Custom Microsoft Dynamics install?
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