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[Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 10:00:40AM +0800, Ray Sun wrote:
>    I create a windows 7 image(without activate) and upload to glance, and I
>    can successfully start it up. But how can I automatically activate it
>    after user launch it? Or how can I inject the SN into windows during
>    startup? Or any other better idea?

If you make the product key available in the user-data attribute, you
can extract it via the scripting language of your choice from
http://169.254.19.254/latest/user-data and then install the key:

  slmgr /ipk <product_key>

And then activate windows:

  slmgr /ato

If the product key is the *only* thing in your user-data attribute,
you can do something like this with PowerShell:

  $web = new-object system.net.webclient
  $data = $web.DownloadString("http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data";)
  slmgr /ipk $data
  slmgr /ato

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