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Created March 13, 2018 14:19
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AWS EC2 userdata script to set Windows admin password
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userdata.ps1
<powershell>
$windows_admin_password="mypassword"
function log {
echo $args[0] | out-file -append c:\bootstrap-status.log
}
log "Setting Windows password"
$admin = [adsi]("WinNT://./administrator, user")
$admin.PSBase.Invoke("SetPassword", $windows_admin_password)
</powershell>
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