AWS - two questions pertaining to AWS, or hosted services.  First off, I am trying to get an idea if AWS is a cost effective hosting replacement solution for small business where in house they have anywhere from 1-6 servers, from a cost perspective.  I took a peak at some of the sizing tools for AWS, but not clear on how I would assess throughput, if all daily functions were moved to AWS.  Would you also move all infrastructure servers and clients would authenticate to DCs in the cloud?  I am not sold on this at all, but it makes absolute sense to know the pros and cons.  From a control and cost and security perspective it probably still makes more sense to go with in-house servers for small business, but need to confirm.


Secondly - what is the best way to get familiar with AWS, for small Windows environments, trying to see if it makes sense from a business continuity stand point. For example, currently using Veeam to replicate all VMs to another remote host, so if we lose site A, we can spin everything up within minutes.  Any thoughts on best way, to get a good understanding of AWS?

Thanks guys!!!
Licompguy

running windows 10
everytime i have an online form to reply to a website, it opens edge
when i send the mail, i Always get the message it could not send the mail, and puts it in to concepts
my default mail app is thunderbird mail

how can i solve this?

System: Dell Latitude 7490 running Windows 10 Pro with thunderbolt connections. I would like to know more about thunderbolt. Can I connect existing DVI/HDMI/Analog Monitors with them?   Are thunderbolt and usb-c useful now or will they become really useful as new devices are built for them?
Thanks,
Alan

We create VMs with the latest build of our code on. One VM has a weird ASYNC_NETWORK_IO error when running a SQL SELECT statement. It isn't on any other VM.

I have tried googling for the error - clearly something failed to start or get set when this VM was created.

Just for peace of mind it would be really useful to know what might be the cause of this and if there is some setting I can adjust to fix it.

The symptom is that a SQL SELECT statement just seems to time out with this ASYNC_NETWORK_IO error, but the strange thing is that it must have somehow returned some results because it then blocks an INSERT statement that has used the results of the SELECT statement.

Everything necessary for the application is on the VM - the ASP.NET application and the SQL Server database so there is no actual network access outside of the VM.

There is no antivirus running on the VM either which is one possibly cause I came across.

The server is Windows Server 2016 and the SQL Server is 2016 also.

I've attached a picture of what is happening.

Just to repeat this doesn't occur on any other VMs with the same software on.

I have tried restarting IIS and restarting the VM.

The VM is Hyper-V.

Using Windows 10, and Windows Live 2011. Microsoft stopped supporting Live.

How can I export the Contacts from Windows Live? I'm going to import them into Thunderbird.

Unable to find the correct way to export these, from Windows 10

We are experiencing the issue mentioned here where the recent KB4467684 disables Outlook 2016 search on our Server 2016 terminal servers, preventing everyone from searching their inboxes. One workaround is to uninstall KB4467684, but then we lack the security updates. So the only workable option is to add the following to registry:
Create a new DWORD here: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\
named  PreventIndexingOutlook and set the value to 1

This re-enables Outlook search after the update so that users can search their inbox. But now we have a second issue which may or may not be related. When they compose a new email and try to add an attachment, the Search Documents box in the upper right of the screen you see when browsing for attachments no longer works. This kind of makes sense because we just added "PreventIndexingOutlook" to the registry, but we cannot remove that key because then they can't search their inboxes.

I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and what the fix might be?

Hello - we have a Surface Pro 2 that has a problem with the USB port not working.  It has been working ok for about a year now, but suddenly stopped working.  only the Sufae cover-style keyboard and mouse work for peripherals.  I have updated the unit to the latest Windows 10, but there are some updates waiting, which I am installing right now.  when I check Dev Mgr, nothing is in an error state, and it appears that all drivers are installed and OK.  what would cause the USB port to stop functioning?  looking for some help on this.

Thanks,
Damian

I would like to recovered data from a faulty m2 ssd (intel SSDSCKKW240H6)  when i connect it at external hard disk , i can see this disk as unknown disk and is needed to initializing (I can't see the size of the unknown disk). (The faulty m2 card it was load with windows 10 )
The problem is that  , if i initializing the disk it there is a chance to lost data.
 I wonder if i can find any tool to repair the MBR of the m2 card or if there is any other way to collect  data ?

I have a few Win 2016 server vms that are having issues connecting to WSUS 6.3 which runs on Win 2012R2
The errors I get are
8024401f
8024401c

Logs show this

2018/06/05 07:45:14.5767492 680   4164  WebServices     WS error: There was an error communicating with the endpoint at 'http://WSUS.domain.com:8530/ClientWebService/client.asmx'.
2018/06/05 07:45:14.5767518 680   4164  WebServices     WS error: The server returned HTTP status code '500 (0x1F4)' with text 'System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException'.
2018/06/05 07:45:14.5767533 680   4164  WebServices     WS error: The server was unable to process the request.
2018/06/05 07:45:14.5767656 680   4164  WebServices     Web service call failed with hr = 8024401f.

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I am able to load this page http://WSUS.domain.com:8530/ClientWebService/client.asmx
with this result.

Client Service


You have created a service.

To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. You can do this using the svcutil.exe tool from the command line with the following syntax:

svcutil.exe http://wsus.domain.com:8530/ClientWebService/Client.asmx?wsdl

You can also access the service description as a single file:

http://wsus.domain.com:8530/ClientWebService/Client.asmx?singleWsdl

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Ive read so many articles about fixes in IIS< but none have worked, nor have there been and changes on WSUS server.
I have another WSUS on another domain and I'm having the same issue there.

On client side ive done the usual but no luck.

net stop wuauserv 
net stop cryptSvc 
net stop bits 
net stop msiserver 
Ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old 
Ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 Catroot2.old 

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The client gets added to WSUS but shows not yet reported.

Ive deployed the new 2016 VM from few different templates with same result.

I have some other 2016 vms, from same templates from a while ago, and those are not showing this error. So I'm not sure why these new ones are.

Win10/64/1803; HP Laserjet P2055DN

Suddenly I can't get duplex to be persistent. I have to set each individual app in the print box.

As you can see, I have two print icons for the same printer. The second NPIA0E091 (HP Laserjet 2055DN)..... is listed in device manager under "print queues." Second,  under printers. The driver for the NPIA.....is printqueue.inf; driver for  second is HP Laserjet P205X series PCL6 Class Driver. This same entry HP Laserjet P205X series PCL6 Class Driver is also listed under printers in DM.

The listing of HP P205X in the Print queue has the following information under events tab:

"Device SWD\PRINTENUM\{44C77522-19F5-47DF-A70E-432CD23D0D91} was configured.

"Driver Name: printqueue.inf
Class Guid: {1ED2BBF9-11F0-4084-B21F-AD83A8E6DCDC}
Driver Date: 06/21/2006
Driver Version: 10.0.17134.1
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: NO_DRV_LOCAL
Driver Rank: 0x0
Matching Device Id: PRINTENUM\LocalPrintQueue
Outranked Drivers: c_swdevice.inf:SWD\GenericRaw:00FF3001
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: SWD\PRINTENUM\WSD-0d76d55a-19e7-4dcb-b47c-f635e7f72927.006f"

The listing of HP P205X in the Printers queue is:

Device SWD\PRINTENUM\WSD-0d76d55a-19e7-4dcb-b47c-f635e7f72927.006f requires further installation.
 
Finally, the event information for NPIAO..... in Print queues

"Device SWD\PRINTENUM\{0A067EA1-7A1B-401D-A233-810F1157523C} was configured.

Driver Name: …