Steps to Build a Windows Environment on AWS for appium runner

This doc is about how to build aws windows for appium runner, it can be used to run E2E testing.

We need to login Windows to do below actions by Administrator user.

Build one Windows based on one Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ¶

EC2 -> Instances -> Launch an instance -> Input one Windows Name
Choose Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Base AMI and one Instance Type
Network settings Info:
1. Choose one VPC which can generate one private IP, the network can communicate with the intranet.
2. Create one security group. Please refer to below Inbound and Outbound rules. And add other ports if you need. Then choose this security group.
Configure storage Info, let's use set 80 GiB and use gp3
Launch instance

Control Panel -> System and Security -> Windows Defender Firewall -> Advance settings -> Inbound Rules -> Add one Rule (8081). And others port you want to open.
Download chrome and install it.
RDP session timeout setting:

gpedit.msc -> Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host -> Session Time Limits -> "Set time limit for disconnected sessions" select enable and set "End a disconnected session" = never "Set time limit for active but idle Remote Desktop Services session" select enable and set "Idel session limit" = never "Set time limit for active Remote Desktop Services sessions" select enable and set "Active session limit" = never - Win os auto update disable:

services.msc -> Windows Update & Windows Push Notifications System Service set to disabled

Chrome auto update disable:
1. services.msc -> Google Updater Internal Service & Google Updater Service set to disabled
2. Update all folder names into xxx.bk which are in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google

Server Manager auto start disable:
1. In Server Manager, click on "Manage" in the top-right corner
2. Select "Server Manager Properties"
3. Check the box for "Do not start Server Manager automatically at logon"
4. Click "OK" to apply the changes

Windows developer mode enable:

Setting -> Update & Security -> For developers and enable Developer Mode

Add some configurations in host file:
1. Find the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
2. Add the following configurations to the hosts file, and any others if necessary.
```
10.240.0.44   csgcmc.webex.com
10.254.249.11 rmc.webex.com
10.254.164.160    ftp.mas.webex.com
10.254.164.146    nginx.mas.webex.com
```

Change password for Administrator

Control Panel -> User Accounts -> User Accounts -> Manager another account -> Change an Account -> Change the password as we required

Download [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org) and install it.
Install appium: npm install -g appium
Install Windows driver: appium driver install --source=npm appium-windows-driver
Install WinAppDriver v1.2.1, (v1.2.99 has bug, make sure not use it).
Install appium-chromium-driver: appium driver install chromium
Install chromedriver:
1. Open Chrome Browser -> Click Help -> About Google Chrome -> Get Chrome version.
2. Find download address from ChromeDriver version with your browser version, it will be a file like chromedriver-win64.zip, unzip it to C:\chromedriver-win64.

Download ffmpeg-release-essentials.zip
Unzip it to somewhere, like C:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin.
Settings -> System -> About -> Advanced System settings -> Config the System variables Path=C:\Program Files\ffmpeg\bin

Download the tesseract
After install, Settings -> System -> About -> Advanced System settings -> Config the System variables Path=C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR (your real install location)
Test by tesseract -v

Download all files from http://10.250.237.28:8089/appium/windows
Copy all files to C:\\appium expect for api.properties file.
Copy the api.properties file to C:\appium\Administrator\conf. Modify some values if needed.
Update the values for appium_cmc_refresh.ps1, specifically the packageVersion and packageBuild.
Execute the following commands in PowerShell as Administrator.
```
cd C:\\appium
./appium_cmc_refresh.ps1
```
Open Task Scheduler and right-click Properties for appium runner monitor1 job. And add or change below settings as following:
Right-click appium runner monitor1 job and choose Run.