US 9,853,978 B2 · Domain join and managed directory support for virtual computing environments

Abstract

A virtual computing environment service may receive a request from a customer to provision a virtual computing environment and join the virtual computing environment to a managed directory. The virtual computing environment service may provision the virtual computing environment and uses a set of administrator credentials from the customer and a set of credentials corresponding to the environment to access the managed directory and request joining of the environment to the managed directory. In response, the managed directory may create a computer account corresponding to the environment and which enables the environment to be used to access the managed directory. The virtual computing environment service may then enable the customer to specify one or more users that may utilize the virtual computing environment to access the managed directory.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

sending a first request from a computing system, to provision a virtual computing environment, the request including a set of encrypted domain join credentials capable of being decrypted through the virtual computing environment and to authenticate a domain user of the virtual computing environment;
transmitting, to a directory domain controller , a second request to join the virtual computing environment to a directory, the second request including the set of domain join credentials and a set of machine credentials corresponding to the virtual computing environment;
and
adding one or more user accounts to a group of user accounts specifying one or more user accounts authorized to access the virtual computing environment.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, if executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to at least:

transmit a request to join a virtual computing resource to a directory, the request including a set of encrypted domain join credentials decryptable by the virtual computing resource and to enable joining of the virtual computing resource to the directory;
transmit, to the directory, a second request to join the virtual computing environment to the directory, including the set of domain join credentials;
and
cause a computer account to be added to the directory based at least in part on the second request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Domain join and managed directory support for virtual computing environments

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Domain join and managed directory support for virtual computing environments

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Abstract

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