<div dir="ltr">Unless you plan on only having one instance of the Windows image running, sysprep should always be used as it removes all unique identifiers from the installation. The github repo I linked to involves running sysprep as the last step before uploading the image to Glance.<div>
<br></div><div>Jacob, can you share your sysprep procedure that prompts the user for a password and then sets it?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Joe</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Razique Mahroua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:razique.mahroua@gmail.com" target="_blank">razique.mahroua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thank you guys,<div>I'll definitely test all these solutions. If syspred does the job, then it's perfect :)</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Razique</div><div><br><div>
<div>Le 15 mai 2013 à 12:58, Jacob Godin <<a href="mailto:jacobgodin@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacobgodin@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">Hi Razique, </p>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers, <br>
Jacob</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2013-05-15 5:36 AM, "Razique Mahroua" <<a href="mailto:razique.mahroua@gmail.com" target="_blank">razique.mahroua@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">gmi68745@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br><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" target="_blank">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:<a href="mailto:razique.mahroua@" target="_blank">razique.mahroua@</a><a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>] <br>
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<br>Hi guys, <br>how do you manage the following items : <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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>
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