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Vista Deployment Login Problem

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 3 comments
Mustafa Abdel-Aziz's picture
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Hi all,

I have a problem with Win Vista deployment and hope anyone can help.

I'm using DS 6.9 and could create a vista image from a member machine of my domain. Then, I have deployed that image to a new machine on the network.

The deployment went fine without problems. But after it finished, and while loading to the production Vista OS, I could not login to the machine!
I tried to login with a domain admin account, also tried the local admin account of the source machine from which I took the image, but all these trials failed.

I finally tried to deploy the image to the same source machine (the machine from which I created the image), and then I could log in using the local admin and the domain admin accounts.

So, I need to know if I miss something to be configured on the client machine or on the Image creation job to solve this issue.

Thanks and regards,
Mustafa

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mlombardo's picture
01
May
2009
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Check your unattended.xml

Mustafa,

I struggled with this as well.  Double check your ""Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" component section in your .xml file. I've included my working (and tokenized) code below. First, it sets the administrator password. Next, It will create a local account for the %USER_NAME% token and allow you to set a password.  Lastly, it sets up a one count auto-logon for the Administrator account.

Mike

<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral"

versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<UserAccounts>
<AdministratorPassword>
<Value>###enter_your_password###</Value>
<PlainText>true</PlainText>
</AdministratorPassword>

<LocalAccounts>
<LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
<Password>
<Value>###enter_your_password###</Value>
<PlainText>true</PlainText>
</Password>
<Description>Account Description</Description>
<DisplayName>%USER_NAME%</DisplayName>
<Group>Administrators</Group>
<Name>%USER_NAME%</Name>
</LocalAccount>
</LocalAccounts>
</UserAccounts>

<AutoLogon>
<Password>
<Value>###enter_your_password###</Value>
<PlainText>true</PlainText>
</Password>
<Username>Administrator</Username>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<LogonCount>1</LogonCount>
</AutoLogon>

</component>

Mustafa Abdel-Aziz's picture
03
May
2009
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which file to edit?

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your reply.

Please, tell me where should I put this code. Which .xml file do you mean and where can I find it?

Thanks,
Mustafa

XIANRAIN's picture
03
May
2009
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Check this link. Maybe there

Check this link. Maybe there is something there that can help.

how can I sysprep Windows Vista ? - windows-noob.com/forums