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On March 21, the first day of MMS 2011, I announced the immediate availability of the Deployment Research blog and Deployment Research Facebook page. Sites filled with video-tutorials on how to deploy operating systems. Information about this new site, as well a bunch of other deployment related community sites was by the way also printed (thank you FedEx) and put in the attendee-bag (Thank you Microsoft) for every MMS 2011 attendee, about 4000 people.

This also means that the deployvista.com blog will not be much active anymore. It will still exist, but the content will gradually be migrated over to the new site, cleaned-up and converted into the new format…

Happy deployment, and I hope to see you online in the forums…

Regards / Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP – Setup & Deployment


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Posted by: johan 7/17/2008

 

Did you ever want another user then administrator to login and run the final stages of the Windows XP Lite Touch setup (State Restore etc..) Well here is how...

Background
When using Lite Touch for deployment, the administrator is used to autologon to finalize the setup process. Since sysprep resets the autologon user during sysprep minisetup, we have to set the name after that. The solution is to make use of cmdlines.txt, a feature in sysprep minisetup to launch scripts just before it saves it's settings.

So I created two scripts, one that will change the user account, and one script that will stage cmdlines.txt to run it (and copy it to the local disk)

Step-by-step

  1. Download the scripts from this link
    http://www.deployvista.com/Repository/tabid/71/ctl/EntryDetails/mid/396/EntryId/40/language/en-US/Default.aspx
  2. Copy the scripts to your scripts folder and create en action in the Postinstall phase that will run the Z-UpdateCmdLines.wsf script.

Note: This sample script assumes that you have the new local admin user in the reference image already.

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