<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Joe, George, thank you for the answers!<div><br><div>I had a hard time as well making the cloudinit working with my Essex environment.</div><div>I'll give a shot on that one </div><div><a href="https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack">https://github.com/jordanrinke/openstack</a></div><div><br></div><div>and let you know!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Razique</div><div><br><div><div>Le 14 mai 2013 à 17:23, GMI <<a href="mailto:gmi68745@gmail.com">gmi68745@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Razique,<br><br>You can use the Windows cloudinit to set an admin password among other<br>things (<a href="https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init">https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init</a>).<br><br>Recovery - use the VNC console and troubleshoot Windows boot problems as<br>normal<br><br>Disk attachment - it's not any different than any hot-pluggable device, so<br>the users have to learn how to use it<br><br>Updates - major updates (SP) should be incorporated in new versions of the<br>provided baselines, but for day to day instance OS patch and management, the<br>users are responsible<br><br>Hope this helps,<br>George<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Razique Mahroua [mailto:razique.mahroua@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>] <br>Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:51 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>Subject: [Openstack-operators] How do you manage your windows instances<br><br>Hi guys, <br>how do you manage the following items : <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>. User password (do you know if it's possible to configure the<br>instance so once the user spawn it for the first time, the user is asked to<br>change his password)<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>. Recovery (do you have any way to debug your customers's<br>instances, how do you connect to them (same applies for Linux-based images<br>actually))<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>. Disk attachment (are your customers aware they need to go to the<br>disk manager after they added a disk if they want to start to use it?<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>. Updates (Are the updates managed by your user,or do you regularly<br>update your images?<br><br>Thank you!<br>Razique<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-operators mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators<br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>