Posts Tagged Unattended Windows 7
USMT: Taking XP to Windows 7 in a Hurry
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 16/02/2010
The Directory Services Team has written another great blog on using USMT.
This time it’s about getting from XP to Windows 7 in a Hurry -> without losing your data.
OSD: Deploying Win7 with SCCM 2007 SP2 and Modena
Posted by Lars Krogh in SCCM 2007 R2 on 11/11/2009
Just downloaded Modena (RC1) from Connect. Haven’t installed it in my SCCM lab yet, but have extracted the files. There are a few good scripts I can use and the WindowHide.exe executable (no more scripting for hiding Windows during OSD).
More bits for my perfect deployment setup …
MDT 2010: Change Windows 7 setup background
Posted by Lars Krogh in MDT 2010, Unattended Windows 7 on 20/08/2009
Within \\<MDT Deployment Share>\Operating Systems\Windows 7 Pro x86\sources
Drop a .bmp called ‘background_cli.bmp’ – I have mine in 1024×768.
Win7/2008R2: Change the Logon background
Posted by Lars Krogh in Tips and Tricks on 11/08/2009
Goto HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background and create a DWORD value named OEMBackground – set it to “1″.
Place a .jpg image called backgroundDefault.jpg in c:\Windows\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds
The image must be less than 256kb in size.
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
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
