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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.

Jacob, can you share your sysprep procedure that prompts the user for a
password and then sets it?

Thanks,
Joe


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Razique Mahroua
<razique.mahroua at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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