Questions tagged with Windows Provisioning

Hello, there. I am trying to migrate my windows 7 vm from my local computer to an amazon AMI. The vm is 32 bit based. I get the error below when monitoring the import image task. ```bash { "ImportImageTasks": [ { "Description": "Windows 7 DA", "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-xx", "Platform": "Windows", "SnapshotDetails": [ { "Description": "Windows 7 DA", "DeviceName": "/dev/sde", "DiskImageSize": xx, "Format": "VHD", "Status": "completed", "Url": "s3://xx.vhd", "UserBucket": { "S3Bucket": "xx", "S3Key": "images/xx" } } ], "Status": "deleted", "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Unsupported architecture. 32-bit architecture is not supported in this region.", "Tags": [] } ] } ```lg...

I created a Lightsail instance with a Windows image, I had some issues with an application so I restarted the server, and now I get this error: *****Password not available Your password isn't available yet. Please try again later.***** I did create another snapshot to try and backdoor the issue; However, I was met with this message: ****Sorry, you've either reached or will exceed your maximum limit of instances of this Lightsail plan size. Please try a smaller plan size or fewer number of instances or contact Customer Support if you need to use the same.**** Please Helplg...

I've been trying unsuccessfully to apply CIS hardening to Workspaces. There is limited documentation of what's know to break Workspaces in terms of GPOs, it doesn't appear to cover the issues we've had, and support doesn't appear to be familiar with CIS, although they are a well-established authority. Windows on Workspaces needs hardening, this falls on the CSC side of shared responsibility, but it's a struggle given what documentation I've been able to find thus far. Does anyone have documentation on exceptions required for Workspaces when running Windows Server 2019?lg...

I have a lot of Windows Server , and i want to backup all of them in consistent way with VSS enable. I notice taht all the backup job are full and not incremental. is there a way to have them incremental ? Thanks a lotlg...

Hi folks, I have setup Directory Service in aws, and created windows instance(management instance) to join the domain, and I installed ldap in the windows server, configured public DNS (Alibaba cloud DNS) to point to EIP of the windows server instance, now in windows server I can use ldp.exe and local domain to connect the ldap service, but if want to use public DNS to connect the ldap service, it will fail because the DNS will be resolved as windows server address, then how can I configure the public DNS to point to domain controller? or how to configure in windows server to forward traffic to DCs? thanks in advance if you can share your idea about this. Best regards, Bryanlg...

I've expanded the disk size of our EC2 r5.2xlarge Windows instance. This seemed to go fine, with the volume indicating the new size and the optimising process successfully completing with the Volume Status showing as "Ok". However, when I try to extend the disk in the Disk Management tool on our EC2 instance the new unallocated disk space does not appear, and the Extend Volume option is greyed out. While there is a second disk on the EC2 for storage the disk I'm trying to extend is not partitioned. I'm a bit stumped and would appreciate any advice. Thanks.lg...

We recently rolled out 50 WorkSpaces to a division of the company and when things are all working properly, things work great! However, when there are issues, we struggle so I'm here looking for some best practices. Due to corporate policies, we only run the WorkSpaces Web Client. The native clients aren't allowed on our corporate machines... Our most common issue is at the start of the day a user will log in to the web client, their machine will start up (I can verify this at the console) but they'll just go to a spinning "connecting" page forever. There's no apparent reason why. We try a variety of things, but I'm never sure what actually solves the issue: * Close the browser tab, then close the browser. * Re-open the browser, try again. * No luck? Clear cache/cookies in the browser, try again. * Try another browser! * Still no luck? Stop the WorkSpaces machine via the AWS console, try again At some point in this dance, things usually work. And I should be clear. For all users, we're in great shape over 95% of the time. There's no consistency in anyone person having more issues than any other. What else should we be trying? There's precious little info in the console so we're sort of flying blind here. This weekend we had an issue where NOBODY could connect. This morning still nobody could connect (35 people all over the city/country). Support, of course, wanted to zero in on one random machine and get network logs from it. We'll never know what the issue was because at 7:30 AM all of the sudden EVERYONE connected. Lol. How do you root cause analyze that? ;-)lg...

I am doing a lift and shift with software from an on-premises architecture. There are two servers (main and auxiliary) that have to talk to one another over the network. I currently have tested and confirmed that I can manually add their hostnames and private IP address to the hosts file (`"C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"`) and the software works fine. For those that don't know, this file is used by Windows to map a network hostname like `EC2AM-1A2B3C` to a IP address. So if I added the hostname and IP address of the main server into the hosts file of the auxiliary server, then the auxiliary server could route to the main server. (i.e. `PS> ping EC2AM-1A2B3C` would then work). How could I pass the required information to both servers? They both have to know the other server's private IP address and hostname. If this is not possible at server spin-up time, how might the servers connect and pass this information? I would really like to automate this if possible.lg...

There is an error that changes to "??" when I type Korean on the server. I wonder if the hosting server environment is UTF-8. It seems that the server doesn't accept Korean, so I want to know the solution. lg...

How to package and automate License software and do versioning based on License software or free software in Windows Ec2 instance with AWS? **Tools Example** like: AWS Image Builder, HASI Corp Packer. I see very less example on Windows Instance on License software Packaging and versioning. ******Please advise****.** with Step by step documents and videos. **Reference Link**: **Packer**: https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/tutorials/integrations/aws-windows-image **AWS Image Builder:- ** https://aws.amazon.com/image-builder/lg...

Hello, I created an EC2 ubuntu instance and connect that instance through SSH from my local command prompt and connection was successfully. After sometime i close my terminal, reopen my local terminal again and try to connect the same instance but this time it gives timed out error. if i create new instance and connect to it it connects successfully. Mean each instance is connected through ssh connection only once. if i close connection and try to reconnect it gives timed out error. I set the security rule to permit SSH connection from anywhere. Can you please help me in this regard thank you.lg...

Hi, In ec2 windows server i had installed nginx instead of IIS. hosted in public subnet,Nginx folder i kept in C drive. In target group its showing Unhealthy. when i run localhost in the server i can see nginx page but from from loadbalancer its unable to access that. How to reslove this issue?lg...