Desktop and Application Streaming

Application Masking manages access to applications, fonts, and other items for end users based on criteria determined by administrators. Application Masking is one of the features available in FSLogix. With Application Masking, administrators can show or hide applications and folders based on Active Directory security group membership, or based on an assigned HAQM AppStream 2.0 […]

Looking back on a year with COVID-19 It is hard to believe that we are coming up on a year of living with COVID-19. In February 2020, countries around the world were beginning to institute travel restrictions, and organizations were shifting large portions of their teams to working from home. We knew that customers needed […]

We recently completed re:Invent 2020 and the End User Computing team presented six different sessions designed to help you understand why and how to get started and scale deployments of HAQM WorkSpaces and HAQM AppStream 2.0. I presented a session called “Reimagine your workforce with AWS End User Computing Services”  where we shared some of […]

Customers ask how to analyze HAQM AppStream 2.0 home folder usage so they can track related spend, manage usage, and administer AppStream 2.0 home folders. Customers have questions like: “How much data is User1 using in AppStream 2.0 home folders?” “What are the top 10 largest files being stored and who owns them?” This blog […]

The HAQM AppStream 2.0 team released a workshop aimed at helping independent software vendors (ISV) move their Windows applications to a software as a service (SaaS) model. Some ISVs have reported that their customers would like to use their own identity provider with the SaaS to provide easier access to a large user base. This […]

re:Invent 2020 will be looking a little different this year, and has gone fully virtual! Our End User Computing (EUC) speakers are excited to present in this new format and share EUC launches, best practices, and more. Registration for re:Invent this year is free and you can explore the session catalogue for our sessions and […]

Shibboleth is an open-source project that provides single sign-on capabilities and identity federation solution used by research and education communities worldwide. If you are already using Shibboleth IdP, this post shows you how to configure it for Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) identity federation with HAQM AppStream 2.0. Overview The AppStream 2.0 SAML […]

April 25, 2024: New customer sign-ups and account upgrades are no longer available for HAQM WorkDocs. For migration options, see How to Migrate Content from HAQM WorkDocs on the AWS Business Productivity blog. HAQM WorkDocs recently announced auto activation.  Auto activation is an automated provisioning of all directory users, which assists administrators in deploying their […]

If you want an automated deployment of this solution, you can use the FreeRADIUS MFA with HAQM WorkSpaces reference architecture for an end-to-end deployment in your AWS account. This uses CloudFormation to deploy this solution in a new or existing Directory Service. In this blog post, we show how to configure FreeRADIUS and LinOTP for […]

Customers regularly ask how to analyze access patterns in HAQM WorkSpaces. Administrators seek to understand how users are accessing HAQM WorkSpaces so they can provide an outstanding overall experience. For example, granular information about access patterns helps plan maintenance windows, forecast network capacity requirements, and set priorities of WorkSpaces client updates. Centrally collecting WorkSpaces events […]