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Disabling Tamper Protection in AWS

I had a few Sophos Server Protection agents deployed to AWS instances.  I created images of those instances, launched them in a new VPC, and deleted the originals.  Once the images were launched in a new VPC they lost their connectivity with Central.  I'm unable to do anything with them because I can't disable tamper protection, and it's my understanding that I cannot boot an EC2 instances into Safe Mode without losing connectivity.  What can I do?



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  • I was able to resolve this with help from AWS support.

    1. Shutdown instance and detach root volume.

    2. Attach root volume to a separate, temp instance running a DIFFERENT VERSION of Windows Server.

    3. Bring disk online in Disk Management on temp instance.

    4. Load hive in registry and make necessary changes as you would in safe mode.

    5. Unload hive.

    6. Stop temp instance.

    7. Detach volume from temp instance.

    8. Attach volume to original instance, naming it /dev/sda1

  • Thanks for the information Keith, very helpful.

    I've had a quick look into the same sort of problem on Azure and as far as I can tell safe-mode is not a supported scenario but there seems to be guides suggesting a very similar approach. 

    Regards,

    Jak

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  • Thanks for the information Keith, very helpful.

    I've had a quick look into the same sort of problem on Azure and as far as I can tell safe-mode is not a supported scenario but there seems to be guides suggesting a very similar approach. 

    Regards,

    Jak

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