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Thank you guys,
I'll definitely test all these solutions. If syspred does the job, then it's perfect :)

regards,
Razique

Le 15 mai 2013 à 12:58, Jacob Godin <jacobgodin at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Razique,
> 
> We used sysprep to auto prompt the user for a password when first booting their instance. This also allows you to do more Microsofty things to your instances on boot, like insert your SPLA product key automatically.
> 
> Cheers, 
> Jacob
> 
> On 2013-05-15 5:36 AM, "Razique Mahroua" <razique.mahroua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe, George, thank you for the answers!
> 
> I had a hard time as well making the cloudinit working with my Essex environment.
> I'll give a shot on that one 
> https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack
> 
> and let you know!
> 
> Regards,
> Razique
> 
> Le 14 mai 2013 à 17:23, GMI <gmi68745 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Razique,
>> 
>> You can use the Windows cloudinit to set an admin password among other
>> things (https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init).
>> 
>> Recovery - use the VNC console and troubleshoot Windows boot problems as
>> normal
>> 
>> Disk attachment - it's not any different than any hot-pluggable device, so
>> the users have to learn how to use it
>> 
>> Updates - major updates (SP) should be incorporated in new versions of the
>> provided baselines, but for day to day instance OS patch and management, the
>> users are responsible
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> George
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Razique Mahroua [mailto:razique.mahroua at gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:51 AM
>> To: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>> Subject: [Openstack-operators] How do you manage your windows instances
>> 
>> Hi guys, 
>> how do you manage the following items : 
>> 	. User password (do you know if it's possible to configure the
>> instance so once the user spawn it for the first time, the user is asked to
>> change his password)
>> 	. Recovery  (do you have any way to debug your customers's
>> instances, how do you connect to them (same applies for Linux-based images
>> actually))
>> 	. Disk attachment (are your customers aware they need to go to the
>> disk manager after they added a disk if they want to start to use it?
>> 	. Updates (Are the updates managed by your user,or do you regularly
>> update your images?
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> Razique
>> 
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