I have problem signing into Microsoft account from my local account on my machine. This used to be my work laptop I have bought it after I left company. I could sign in on my domain user without any problems. Since I left domain I lost this account.
I am trying to "Sign in with Microsoft account instead" option in Accounts->Your info. After I enter my Microsoft account credentials and insert my local user password I get message "Oops something went wrong. Whatever happen it was probably our fault". Good one Microsoft.
Also similarly when I try to add account to Calendar app I end up with same problem, but here I got more information: "You will need the internet for this. It doesn't look like you're connected to the internet. Check your connection and try again. 0x800704cf". This led me to check Network troubleshooter and this error came up:
Your computer appears to be correctly configured, but the device or
resource (www.microsoft.com) is not responding
Contact your network administrator or Internet service provider (ISP)
Completed Windows can't communicate with the device or resource
(www.microsoft.com). The computer or service you are trying to reach
might be temporarily unavailable.
I have tried many ways how to fix this. (Flush DNS, reboot router etc..), but I am pretty sure that my problem is not with my internet connection. It works perfectly fine, also note that I was able to check this with 2 internet providers with same result. Also another thing is, that this works perfectly fine with other devices in our household.
For me it looks like system don't see microsoft.com. Only thing I am able to work with is One drive.
I am pretty sure I would be able to fix this by resetting Windows 10, but I don't want to loose my installed programs (and licenses).
Any advice will be appreciated. I really ran out of options.
After doing many many thing, only thing that helped was resetting PC. It always does help.
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Everyday I log into my SSH session of a Google Cloud VM I maintain (Debian).
Since a week ago, I noticed my performance was lagging as I typed into the VM or when doing something else. I mostly login into this VM to check log files of scheduled scripts I have, and even when I use "cat script.log", what used to take less than 2 seconds now takes at least 5 or 7 seconds, loading the log text.
Pinging different websites bring me an reasonable 10 - 15 ms. I'm pretty sure it's not about my local connection either, everything else I do works fine in my local computer.
A warning started to appear now into my session, saying
"Please consider adding the IAP-secured Tunnel User IAM role to start using Cloud IAP for TCP forwarding for better performance. Learn more Dismiss"
I've already configured the IAP secured tunnel to my account, which is the owner account of GCP project.
Another coworker of mine is being able to access the VM without any performance issues whatsoever.
Your issue is in my opinion with the ISP. For some reason the SSH sessions are lagging.
That's why even other computers using your home ISP lag SSH sessions too. If that was firewall rule interfering you wouldn't be able to connect at all.
You may try to reset all the network hardware in your home and if that doesn't help
run tracert command in windows shell and then contact your ISP and pass your findings. It's possible it's something on their end (and if not maybe their's ISP etc).
To solve the problem you need to add "IAP-secured Tunnel User" at the project level in IAM for that user.IAP-secured Tunnel User + See instructions here in a blog I wrote about this. That should solve your problem.
We're a small 4-man team working on an indie games marketplace.
Like several previous posters before us, we are having trouble with the Windows Defender Smartscreen blocking our app. The most common message is "File is not commonly downloaded" but sometimes it also reads something like "Windows Protected your PC."
We've received a number of complaints from our users about the Smartscreen warning message, and it's badly hurting our efforts with user acquisition.
In accordance with previous threads we found on this topic, we have tried
Code Signing - we sign our code through DigitCert, and have done so for nearly 5 months; the message has not gone away. As we use AWS for our servers, we don't have any way to use an EV Code Signing hardware token.
Microsoft Code Review - We submitted our files to Microsoft for Malware analysis. The analysis came back clean, even with a note saying they could not reproduce the warning, and yet, both our own testing and our users confirms the Windows Defender message is still happening.
Becoming a Microsoft Partner - Unfortunately, even after getting approval and confirmation, absolutely nothing has changed.
Everything I can find online about getting our app whitelisted is about whitelisting specific programs from the user side -- not very useful for convincing people we're safe to download. There are two threads on Stack Overflow that link to a blog article which has since been removed. Microsoft, Amazon, and DigitCert support have all been less than helpful.
My questions are:
1. Is Amazon CloudHSM a substitute for EV Code Signing? As stated above, we can't use a hardware token, but I have to imagine that AWS has some kind of substitute. We've never re-issued the serial on our current code signing cert, but I can't imagine 5 months is a normal turn-around time.
2. Does hosting the download link on our own domain make a huge difference? Currently, the download link leads to an AWS bucket. One website said that could potentially slow things?
3. What else are we supposed to do? We're not a large team and we're kind of stretched thin as it is. If anybody has any suggestions we haven't tried yet, I'm all ears.
I have been testing out a ubuntu instance on GCS for the last couple weeks and a possible home for one of our web servers. Last week suddenly everything stopped working. I was not able to SSH to shell, and I couldn't even visit the site anymore through my browser. I logged into the dashboard and nothing seemed wrong. I had several other colleges try to go to the site and it loaded without any issues. I could not find any settings in the dashboard that would suggest some kind of block like this, so i assumed I must have triggered some kind of anti spam system. I decided to give a few days before trying to mess with it any further. after 6 days of not messing with it at all I still can not visit the site, or login via SSH.
Then to verify they are blocking my IP address and that it wasn't just something wrong with my machine. I switched my IP and then everything started behaving as expected once again. I can get to the site in my browser and can once again SSH into the VM. After switching back to my previous static IP everything went back to not letting me view the webpage, or ssh into the server.
My problem is that this isn't a permanent solution for me. I have many servers that only allow login from my previous IP address so I'd rather fix the issue with this VM rather then change all those system to allow from a new IP address. Any help on finding the solution would be greatly appreciated.
Please let me know if I can provide any additional info to help find the problem.
followup info:
The way our network is set up the IP we get from DHCP is the real world IP our device is seen with (I think we own a block or something)
this is the first time i've done anything with a GCS VM
Edit: added additional information
I have a problem with a web service that is installed and started with a .msi that is created with the WiX toolset.
The service can be installed and started on all the machines I tested so far (shown as running in the Services Manager) but on some machines it is not reachable (for example via a browser) and not shown in the list of listening ports on that machine (displayed with 'netstat -a').
I am trying to figure out what's going wrong but I am not really familiar with web service development and configuration. It's a third party service, thus I don't know how it works internally.
A good starting point for me would be to find out, what exactly happens when a service is installed and started during the execution of the .msi-file.
Maybe I could try to tackle the problem on a lower level then.
Below is my code in the ServiceInstall-Element:
<ServiceInstall
Id="ServiceID"
Type="ownProcess"
Vital="yes"
Name="ServiceName"
DisplayName="ServiceDisplayName"
Description="Lorem Ipsum"
Start="auto"
Account="LocalSystem"
ErrorControl="normal"
Interactive="no"
Arguments="action=run">
</ServiceInstall>
The argument is important - without it, the service won't start or run.
Maybe someone else encounterd the same or a similar problem and can help me out.
Thanks already in advance - each hint is appreciated.
EDIT I (15.04.18):
As it might be a problem with the specific service, I will add some further information here:
It's a third party software called CryptoLicensing:
http://www.ssware.com/cryptolicensing/cryptolicensing_net.htm
Part of this software is that specific program, that serves as a License Server and does the license registration, for example in a customer's network.
The service can be run as a Windows application or installed and run as a Windows service. In both cases it should be listening on a (pre-)specified port on the installed machine.
Whenever I start the .exe as an application, everything works as intended. The service is reachable (for example with the browser) and can be accessed from other machines in the network.
When the .exe is installed and started as a service, it does not work as intended on every machine. For example if I install and start the service on my laptop, it is shown as running in the Services Manager, but is not reachable on its assigned URL (not even on the localhost) nor is the specific port displayed in the active listening ports, for example with 'netstat -a'.
The service itself starts without any error messages and does not log any errors or exceptions as it seems to be running without any problems.
I contacted the vendor, but sometimes he doesn't reply quickly and he is not very specific in his replies.
Before asking the question I assumed that it was a problem with the Windows user rights and the WiX installer but during the discussion here I had the feeling that it might a problem with the service itself.
I hope this 'new' piece of information helps in isolating and location the problem.
Thanks to everyone who helped so far!
Hopefully not stating the obvious here, but WiX doesn't do much except populate the ServiceInstall table in the MSI file, so this is about why Windows Installer won't start the service. ServiceInstall table:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa371637(v=vs.85).aspx
Also, this isn't really about ServiceInstall - it's probably about the ServiceControl element in your WiX source, but it's not clear whether that's how you're starting it or if you're starting it manually later on. That does make a difference. What is the error message and where are you getting it, and is it a 1920 or 1921 error (in the context of ServiceControl).
The main reason a service will start on one system but not another is missing dependencies. If your service is C++ based (the post doesn't say) then there are probably dependencies on C runtimes, UCRT runtimes, MFC or ATL runtimes and so on.
First: are you sure this service is intended to run as LocalSystem? (MSDN, SO).
Second: did you check the event logs in detail for anything obvious? If the service is good you should find a hint at least. Something to start with. I find that I sometimes miss the actual logs in the event viewer because it is so "crowded". My take on it: empty the log and stop and restart the service.
Something locking / blocking: If the service installs and runs OK I would suspect other factors such as firewalls (hardware & software), security software in general (anti-virus, malware scanners), network configuration issues (proxies, WINS, DNS and all the complexities involved in networking). Is the service trying to reach an UNC path?
Diverse Machines: What are the target machines? Are they virtual, are they physical, are they test machines, are they operative SOE machines in corporate networks? Are they the same OS version and edition?
Further Ideas: It is not quite related, but maybe skim this list of suggestions for debugging from another answer (I am not sure why it was down-voted, I think it is an OK list to inspire debugging ideas): Windows Application Startup Error Exception code: 0xe0434352 (maybe just skim the bolded words for ideas - Recommended).
sc.exe: And finally, perhaps check the sc.exe tool (Service Control) and see if it can provide you with some useful information for debugging.
sc.exe in the context of killing hung services (sample use).
sc.exe from MSDN
Some further links:
Windows Services Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Content seems to be up to date - at face value at least. These guys claim to be experts on services. I have no idea who they are.
Essential Tools for Windows Services: SC.EXE
Run Service Control (sc.exe) command on secure port
After almost 20 months we finally (and accidentally) found a solution to the problem! For the few machines, on which the service did not run properly, setting the NoInteractiveServices value in the registry to 0 did the trick. A value of 1 (which is default) means that no service is allowed to run interactively, regardless of whether it has the SERVICE_INTERACTIVE_PROCESS property. More information on Interactive Services.
I am not completely satisfied with the solution, because on all the other machines NoInteractiveServices is set to 1 AND the service runs properly anyway. However, on the machines where the service did not run interactively this solution worked for us. Thus I will accept this as an answer.
If anyone has more information on this issue and can explain why this works, feel free to
add them - I would be very interested!
Is it not possible to remotely manage XP sp2 PC from another XP sp3 computer using WMI where both of PC are in a work group? I have run wmimgmt.msc right click WMI control the connect to another PC. I have also used WMI Tools which I downloaded. I have Administrative account on the remote computer. I tried everything I found on the net
including:
Remote enabled WMI on the remote computer
It must not be firewall issue as I tried everything including disabling it ( the firewall).
Gave my account all permissions to the root and root\CIMV2 names paces on the remote computer
Created the same administrative account( Same user name and password) on local computer (not remote) as suggested by some people on the net.
and others
But I keep getting error like
Access denied
The RPC server is not available
I set up security event log on the remote computer and I got the clue that the account requesting is not my account . This way I guess that it not possible to manage my PC this way but I should set up my network so that both PC's are in the same domain. But I don't want this to happen now.
Is my guess right? If not what is wrong with me?. I am a newbie in this area.
Sorry everybody. I answer the question my self.
It is possible. The problem I was having was not creating the accounts correctly