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Setting local Admin Password

Updated: 23 May 2010 | 7 comments
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Hi

I am working with Altiris, deploying an image to HP t5720 Thin Clients

I had issues with the image being deployed, but i can do this now

I want to set the job up to set the local admin password  during the deployment?? is this possilbe?

Or is it better to set the local admin password before i take the image?

Thanks

Phil

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Phyrant's picture
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2009
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Before pulling image

I would say it would be better to set it up before pulling the image just to save a step afterwards.

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2009
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AD Policy

You can also set this in AD policy if you want all machines that the policy is applied to have a set password.  You can even use the policy to rename the administrator account.

Brian Hawver
Systems Engineer
Yaskawa America, Inc.

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2009
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Create a separate job

Create a separate job to set the local admin password and eventually add a AD group to local administrators group. You can run execute this job after the image deployment. But the better choice , if still possible , start with the base image with the right password.

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2009
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whats the route for

whats the route for this??

are the job runs

we deploy the image
take off the write filter
change the name of the machine
add it to the domain
enable the write filter

would like add a stage where it changes the local admin password

thanks

Phil

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Set a job to run a windows

Set a job to run a windows script, we run it hidden.

net user administrator password

I set the password in the base image though.

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2009
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in the image

The easiest way is going to be setting the password in the image. Then you don't need to worry about it.

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ok peeps thank you Fil

ok peeps

thank you

Fil