Archive for category Unattended Windows 2008

XP/2003/2008/Vista/Win7: Rename the Administrator

Posted by Lars Krogh in Unattended Windows 2003, Unattended Windows 2008, Unattended Windows 7, Unattended Windows XP on 11/08/2009

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I rename the Administrator account as part of my OS configuration steps (I use one username for my desktop installs and another username for my server installs).

These are the steps:

renuser Administrator “the-new-adminname” (download renuser from www.ntfaq.com)

reg ADD “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon” /V DefaultUserName /T REG_SZ /F /D “the-new-adminname”

reg ADD “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon” /V AltDefaultUserName /T REG_SZ /F /D “the-new-adminname”

net user /add Administrator “a-strong-password”

net user Administrator /active:no

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2008: Unattended.xml customizations

Posted by Lars Krogh in Unattended Windows 2008 on 11/08/2009

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In the <settings pass=”specialize”> pass:

Enable Remote Desktop

<component name=”Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager” processorArchitecture=”amd64″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance“>
    <fDenyTSConnections>false</fDenyTSConnections>
</component>

Disable Internet Explorer hardening for the Administrator

<component name=”Microsoft-Windows-IE-ESC” processorArchitecture=”amd64″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance“>
    <IEHardenAdmin>false</IEHardenAdmin>
</component>

Disable Server Manager from Opening Automatically on First Boot

<component name=”Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager-SvrMgrNc” processorArchitecture=”amd64″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance“>
    <DoNotOpenServerManagerAtLogon>true</DoNotOpenServerManagerAtLogon>
</component>

Disable Windows OOBE experience

<component name=”Microsoft-Windows-OutOfBoxExperience” processorArchitecture=”amd64″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance“>
    <DoNotOpenInitialConfigurationTasksAtLogon>true</DoNotOpenInitialConfigurationTasksAtLogon>
</component>

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