legacy systems needs to go to cloud

.NET and Win32 softwares will be around for long time, for sure..

why container? 1nd

Large systems with decades of code written, composed by 3rd party components can not be changed right away. So containerizing monoliths, are one important step on the jorney to the cloud

why container? 2st

I'm newbie, but as far as I know, the whole thing about containers is ship it as image once and run it everywhere, with environment isolation and integrity.. right?!

the issue

There is no way to properly set globalization settings like Time Zone, Language, or Windows-Location on Server Core containers. Once I can not control the container host, I don't know where my software will run: Azure AKS, AWS, On-Prem, data centers, Windows Desktops,..
So, I need to ensure some container environment settings..

the feeling

I'm very sad.. Microsoft should realize that globalization settings like language and time zone are fundamental to keep the world running..

Otherwise, Windows Server on container is useless, and if you have an OS useless for containers, what do you have?!

I want to go to cloud, I want to go with Windows platform, please don't stop me...

more details and context

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/40284

Hello,

on a fresh installed and fully patched Windows Server 2019 Std if I enable RDSH role the Windows Search stops working.

Windows Search service looks good and eventlog shows no errors but Indexing Options shows no locations enabled for indexing and I am unable to add them

Things I have already tried

1 - Windows Search service restart

2 - Server restart

3 - Rebuild Index

4 - Enable Windows Search feature

5 - DISM ad SFC

6 - Windows Troubleshoot - shows incorrect permission on C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data folder but is unable to fix them. If I manually fix those permissions, search still not works adn permission are automatically reset to previous not working ones

Thank you in advance for help

UPDATE:

Uninstalling RDSH role fix the issue. Unfortunatelly I need both RDSH and Windows Search

BUG confirmed by other users here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4c200f89-5905-42b3-ab27-0d7771c0ecb7/rdsh-role-breaks-windows-search?forum=ws2019&prof=required

I am facing an issue where I have enabled the SSO with ADFS . I am able to do sso login from Mozila and Chrome but IE 11 is not letting me logged in with sso. IE keep asking for credentials so many times(ADFS LDAP user's credentials) and failing . From this doc I have tried to configure the browser to use WIA by configuring the AD FS property WiaSupportedUserAgents to add the required values based on the browsers. But still I am facing the same issue. as checked in the below command I can see that IE 11 is missing from supported browsers . Can you please clarify whether I am missing IE or there is something else I need to configure to resolve my issue ?

below are the ADFS properties I have configured.

Set-AdfsProperties -WIASupportedUserAgents @("MSIE 6.0", "MSIE 7.0; Windows NT", "MSIE 8.0", "MSIE 9.0", "MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6", "Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.2; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.1; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0", "Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0", "MSIPC", "Windows Rights Management Client", "Edg/*")

Normally when you run a batch file or other program from the command prompt the title of the console window changes to include the name of the batch file while it's running, such as "Command Prompt - testbatch".

But after it runs the following batch file (testbatch.bat which chains to testbatch2.bat) it never changes it back, even though it has run to completion. So if you run it three times you end up with "Command Prompt - testbatch - testbatch - testbatch" as the title.

To reproduce, create the following two files and run "testbatch" from the command prompt multiple times.

:: testbatch.bat
if errorlevel 0 (
testbatch2
)

:: testbatch2.bat
goto :eof

Default servercore:1809 image came with en-US.

• At this moment, for Server Core 2019, you have to install language pack by yourself: https://docs.microsoft.com/pt-br/windows-server/get-started-19/rel-notes-19.


• The way to do it, is using lpksetup: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4466511/cannot-configure-language-pack-for-windows-server-2019
  


• But lpksetup.exe crashes when running on container

I've described step by step how to reproduce lpksetup.exe error on container, producing crash report logs that I've extracted from container.
All here: https://github.com/sanguedemonstro/docker-playground/issues/1#issuecomment-453078549

With extra details here: https://github.com/sanguedemonstro/docker-playground/blob/master/langpack-on-servercore2019.md#why-am-i-playing-around-this-subject

But I'm not able to understand logs or fix windows base image. And I can't open support ticket once I'm not MS partner.

So if anyone could help I'm here to support.

Thanks!