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** Below is the header text written in the .sln files produced by Microsoft Visual Studio. **
** By default, each header is preceeded by a Windows new line character (CRLF) in the .sln **
** file. I've identified the specific Visual Studio version used to create each header in  **
** place of this blank line and indicated each as such [[ VS<VERSION> (PLATFORM TOOLSET) ]]**
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** DO NOT INCLUDE ANYTHING FROM THIS LINE IN YOUR .SLN FILE. REPLACE THIS WITH A NEW LINE  **
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ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

• Ctrl-Key: ^[
• Octal: \033
• Unicode: \u001b
• Hexadecimal: \x1b
• Decimal: 27

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Windows AWS Packer example

An example of building a Windows Server 2019 AMI on AWS with Packer. The AMI will include Firefox, Putty, VSCode and extensions.

This is heavily based on the AWS Windows examples from https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon/ebs

1. Configure your environment with some AWS credentials
2. Run packer build custom-windows.pkr.hcl

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Using Python to check if remote port is open and accessible.

Taken from http://snipplr.com/view/19639/test-if-an-ipport-is-open/

Usage:

• Open a Python prompt
• Run the script in is_port_open.py
• Call isOpen with a host and a port parameter. Example: isOpen("www.google.com", 80)