US 12,143,392 B2
System and method to securely execute datacenter management operations remotely
Vikas Ahuja, Sammamish, WA (US); Joel T. Hendrickson, Redmond, WA (US); Xiaoting Zhang, Suzhou (CN); and Yi Zeng, Bothell, WA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on May 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/198,766.
Application 18/198,766 is a continuation of application No. 17/141,734, filed on Jan. 5, 2021, granted, now 11,700,262.
Application 17/141,734 is a continuation of application No. 15/957,470, filed on Apr. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,917,409.
Prior Publication US 2023/0291741 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 63/102 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45512 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01); H04L 2463/082 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
generating, at a remote computer, a request comprising a user identifier of a user and an exposed parameter of an application task automation command that is invoked by a proxy command at the remote computer, the proxy command forming a wrapper around a configuration command that identifies and exposes the exposed parameter used by the configuration command;
sending the request to a datacenter computer that is configured to determine whether the user is authorized to execute the application task automation command corresponding to the invoked proxy command; and
receiving a response from the datacenter computer after the datacenter computer runs the application task automation command with the exposed parameter in response to the datacenter computer determining that the user is authorized to execute the application task automation command.