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I launched a new Windows Server 2016 on AWS.
When packaging up an EC2 to pass on to clients or to the AWS Marketplace
I am not sure what the issues were. I have switched back and forth to between SVR 2012 and 2016. I don’t do fancy stuff, just resetting the password
I copied this for a script, but did it manually in powershell,
{
“type”: “powershell”,
“inline”: [
“C:\\ProgramData\\Amazon\\EC2-Windows\\Launch\\Scripts\\InitializeInstance.ps1 -Schedule”,
“C:\\ProgramData\\Amazon\\EC2-Windows\\Launch\\Scripts\\SysprepInstance.ps1 -NoShutdown”
]
}
manually
C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Scripts\InitializeInstance.ps1 -Schedule
C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Scripts\SysprepInstance.ps1 -NoShutdown
https://david-obrien.net/2016/12/packer-and-aws-windows-server-2016/
After this you can create the image which will have a new password.
You need to restart your original instance in order for it to assign a new password.
Follow instructions at the link below if you if you want to change stuff like wallpaper, drive mappings or set a specific password.
Source: Configuring a Windows Instance Using EC2Launch – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud