Setting Windows Administrator Password

[Srisharaan]

Hello Team,
Is there any way to set password for Administrator Account for windows apart from Administration->Settings->Provisioning
We are able to do that for Linux in layouts by using cloud-init

How can something similar be done for Windows

[cbunge]

If you just define the user/pass in the fields and the image is using cloud init I believe we define that user within the image.

Looks like you are trying to define user data block which I don’t believe is required for this use case.

[cbunge]

you can fill out the username and password fields on virtual images to set passwords if using cloud-init or guest customization.

[#4]

Hi @cbunge, can you suggest the format for how the cloud-init setting should be set similar to what is done in the screenshot above for the Linux base image under the image listed in the virtual image?

I kind of looked at the docs but could not find any relevant information for the same. your help or suggestions would be of great help

[#5]

++ Also for cloud config as above to work, does the Windows image prep need cloud-init for Windows to be configured, since the image preparation step in Morpheus doc I don’t see it.

[Srisharaan]

Thank you

[#7]

@cbunge

can you we something like the below to set the admin password for Windows? so that at the time of provisioning cloud-init will reset the password?

#cloud-config
users:
  -
    name: Administrator
    primary_group: administrators
    groups: administrators
    passwd: YOURPASSWORDHERE
    inactive: False
runcmd:
  - "net user administrator /active:no"
  - "net user admin /active:no"
  - "shutdown -r"