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		bilbo0s on Nov 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Perfo... Easier way to get the GUID in Windows is to use the command OTOY recommended.. wmic PROCESS get Caption,CommandLine \| FIND "GUID" but write the results to a txt file on the desktop. So... wmic PROCESS get Caption,CommandLine \| FIND "GUID" > Desktop\t.txt I don't know why OTOY would NOT have put that value in the instance metadata on startup???

sandyman on Nov 6, 2013 [–]

You have two choices - supply your own GUID in the metadata, and this overrides the randomly assigned one, or look in RDP/ssh for it (which is more work than needed - highly recommended you add your own GUID, this way it doesn't need to be copied or grabbed from RDP/ssg)

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