All Content tagged with Windows Provisioning

Hello, I’m currently using Amazon AppStream 2.0 with Elastic Fleets and noticed that only older Windows Server base images are available. Could you please let me know if AWS plans to release newer Wi...

We are running Windows EC2 instances in production. Instance type is m7i.xlarge and base image is Microsoft Windows Server 2025. We have patch manager setup with default baselines for windows. Patch m...

I'm building a custom Windows Server 2022 Core AMI using EC2 Image Builder, and I'm using the AWS-managed component update-windows to apply Windows updates during the image build process. The build f...

We are in the process of replacing our Win 10 workspaces with Windows 11. We need to be able to "lock out" a user from their Windows 10 machine if they haven't agreed to an upgrade. We can't just Del...

CLI JSON Path How to specify a JSON file path correctly in AWS CLI on Windows? I wrote --cli-input-json C:\path\to\file.json but get “file not found.” Do I need quotes or escape characters? What’s ...

Hello, I'm posting this with the hope that it can save other people the time it took me to figure out. ### Solution: Microsoft has deprecated `wmic` with Windows Server 2025, which breaks the EC2 lau...

Hello, I created an ec2 instance and when I try to connect it I got this issue. And RDP is already turned on in my system and instace is also runnign. Please help! [This is the screenshot of the erro...

I want to know if this is possible. So in my dissertation i want to make a print server. I have a a printer which is very old and it connect to my pc with cable. So its possible to make a printer serv...

Hello, today I was trying to modify the default settings for my remote desktop instance(windows), to add my laptop's integrated camera. To do this I went to "Local Resources" -> "Local devices and res...

I’ve uploaded a “Windows Server 2012 R2” VHDX image into a s3 bucket and used import-image several times to import into aws ec2 with incremental options added after the -disk-containers file://con...

The current (Feb 2025) documentation for 'Bootstrapping AWS CloudFormation Windows stacks' (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-windows-stacks-bootstrapping.html) says t...