Hi, To get the user-data working for a MS Windows Instance, I found this http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/ and yet to test it. Is there a better way to do it. I basically want start a few applications after booting the instance. I do not prefer the inbuilt startup-tasks since I may have to pass certain parameters for the applications start up which may not be known beforehand. Thanks, Balu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130108/2d7747f4/attachment.html>