Dead links to ISOs and Amazon AWS

All the ISO links like

    
           EVAL_WIN7_X64 ?= http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/evalx/win7/x64/EN/7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_enterprise_en-us_EVAL_Eval_Enterprise-GRMCENXEVAL_EN_DVD.iso

are dead. Not sure if it makes sense to keep them them. Or do they actually resolve to the ISO files when one is logged into MSDN?

This link is also dead, not really an AWS person, so cannot tell what is expected here:

windows/Makefile

Line 632 in ee2222e

S3_ALLUSERS_ID ?= uri=http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/global/AllUsers

I think it makes sense to follow the pattern for Server 2012 - setting the ISO file path to a local iso/<image>.iso - but running a make test then fails spectacularly.

I can try taking a look at the Makefile to see about skipping if the iso doesn't exist.

I get this is an old issue so things might have been fixed since this was first reported.

That S3_ALLUSERS_ID is just for specifying permissions so its existence doesn't matter.

Running a test against all the URLs in Makefile seems to show that they're still up. Some of the ISOs might be wrong however as I think I remember building a template for one particular platform and getting another one...

Test to verify whether URLs are dead:

$ grep ^EVAL_ Makefile | grep -v CHECKSUM | cut -d= -f2- | cut -d' ' -f2 | while read url; do echo $url; curl -L -I $url | grep -i content-length; done
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/evalx/win7/x64/EN/7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_enterprise_en-us_EVAL_Eval_Enterprise-GRMCENXEVAL_EN_DVD.iso
Content-Length: 3121248256
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/B/9/9/B999286E-0A47-406D-8B3D-5B5AD7373A4A/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X64FRE_ENTERPRISE_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_CENA_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO
Content-Length: 0
Content-Length: 3961473024
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/5/E/75EC4E54-5B02-42D6-8879-D8D3A25FBEF7/7601.17514.101119-1850_x64fre_server_eval_en-us-GRMSXEVAL_EN_DVD.iso
Content-Length: 3166840832
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/2/A/62A76ABB-9990-4EFC-A4FE-C7D698DAEB96/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO
Content-Length: 4542291968
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/evalx/win7/x86/EN/7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_enterprise_en-us_EVAL_Eval_Enterprise-GRMCENEVAL_EN_DVD.iso
Content-Length: 2400454656
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/B/9/9/B999286E-0A47-406D-8B3D-5B5AD7373A4A/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X86FRE_ENTERPRISE_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_CENA_X86FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO
Content-Length: 0
Content-Length: 2946897920
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/5/3/C/53C31ED0-886C-4F81-9A38-F58CE4CE71E8/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_ENTERPRISE_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_CENA_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO
Content-Length: 0
Content-Length: 3490564096
https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/pr/17134.1.180410-1804.rs4_release_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x64FRE_en-us.iso
content-length: 4257949696
https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/pr/17134.1.180410-1804.rs4_release_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x86FRE_en-us.iso
content-length: 3104182272
https://software-download.microsoft.com/download/pr/Windows_Server_2016_Datacenter_EVAL_en-us_14393_refresh.ISO
content-length: 6972221440
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/D/A/6DAB58BA-F939-451D-9101-7DE07DC09C03/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO
Content-Length: 3694962688

As it seems that the reported issue doesn't exist anymore and isn't tied to a PR, do you guys mind if I close this?

Sorry for the delayed answer. No, thanks!