10 easy steps to building a Windows Server in the Rackspace Cloud

Select Cloud Servers

Click Add Server

Select Windows

Select image

Select the image that you want your server based on.

Name your server

Give your server a name and select the server size, and then press Create Server.

Wait while your server is built

The server will now be built. You will see a rotating progress icon.

Look out for this gotcha

Every time I built a server, I received this error. However, If you refresh the page the error should disappear.

Server built

After you refresh the error page, you should see this page, confirming that your server has been built successfully.

Log in with the admin password

Once your server is active, you should receive an email from Rackspace giving you your server's IP address and the Administrator password. Since newer versions of the Microsoft Terminal Services Client do not permit pasting into the password field, you may prefer to give your server a short name as the auto-generated password will be your server name followed by a series of random characters. You can, always rename your server once you reset the password.

Connect to your new server using the Rackspace VNC client or an RDP client (Remote Administration is turned on by default).

For a few more details and general tips on this process, see the original post by Colin Smith, "How to build a Windows Server in the Rackspace Cloud."