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1. To configure guest password length and characters, see Abiquo Configuration Properties#guest
2. To configure password emails, do these steps
   
   1. Enable password emails in Configuration view, see Configuration View#Security
   2. Abiquo will mail the password to the VM owner, so on the Abiquo Server, check that you have set the mail properties with the address of the mail server and mail user. See Abiquo Configuration Properties#mail. 
   3. To customize the email template, see Configure Email Templates
   4. Check that all VM owners have a valid email address
3. To configure password SMS, do these steps
   1. Optionally customize the SMS template, see Configure Email Templates
   2. Enter SMS gateway address to enable password SMS in Configuration view, see Configuration View#Security. The platform will send the password email to {{user phone number}}@{{sms gateway}}  
   3. Check that all VM owners have a valid phone number. Check the documentation of your SMS gateway provider for format requirements 

4. To prevent user access to VMs while waiting for Windows password on ESXi set the following abiquo.properties on the Remote Services server

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   # Time to wait for guest tools to get up and running after power on # This value is 15 minutes com.abiquo.esxi.experimental.customize.configure.timeoutms=900000 # Polling interval for checking if guest tools is up and running after power on # This value is 10 seconds com.abiquo.esxi.experimental.customize.configure.periodms=30000

   
   

5. To optionally enable password display through key button in the UI, see Configure Abiquo UI
   
   • The VM owner can view display their own VM password
   • Users with the privilege to Display initial virtual machine password can display To allow a user to display the passwords of all VMs they can access, assign the privilege to Display initial virtual machine password 

Prepare templates

To prepare a template to generate a random password in the VM, for the first time it deploys: 

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