[makelocalsource?]

If you run winnt32.exe from the command line, to begin your installation, you can select the switch /makelocalsource. This will copy the i386 directory to the %systemdrive% and set the registry hooks for the i386 location to be there, instead of on the CD-ROM for future installs where the i386 directory is necessary.

Is there a way to trip this switch in an unatended install, from the winnt.sif or otherwise?

I have an existing autobuild CD, and this is a very desirable feature for my team, but I'm having no luck implementing it.

Thanks.

[Autologin not working... what am I missing?]

Simply change:

EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes

to:

EncryptedAdminPassword=No

You can not encrypt your password if you want autologin to work.

AHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I should have known that. It never even occurred to me.

THANK YOU!

[Autologin not working... what am I missing?]

Okay, it has to be something simple that I am missing here, but I can't figure it out.

Why won't my unatended install autologin the first time?

Here is my .sif file, which looks to me like it should work, but it just doesn't.

This is for Windows 2003 x64

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
	AutoPartition=0
	MsDosInitiated="0"
	UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
	UnattendMode=FullUnattended
	OemSkipEula=Yes
	OemPreinstall=Yes
	TargetPath=\WINDOWS
	WaitForReboot = No
	NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
	NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1
	NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=e8a0c58bb967fecd1aa953721e4e281bed468w37906681715b0bd758c970c7ac8
	EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
	AutoLogon=Yes
	AutoLogonCount=1
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	TimeZone=4
	OemSkipWelcome=1
	ServerWelcome=No

[UserData]
	ProductKey=I Love Microsoft!  Wheee!
	FullName="IndyMac Bank"
	OrgName="IndyMac Bank"
	ComputerName=*

[TerminalServices]
	PermissionsSetting=0
	AllowConnections=1
	LicensingMode=PerUser

[Display]
	Xresolution=1024
	YResolution=768

[LicenseFilePrintData]
	AutoMode=PerSeat


[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
	InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]
	Iis_common = Off
	Iis_ftp = Off
	Iis_inetmgr = Off
	Iis_internetdataconnector = Off
	Iis_nntp = Off
	Iis_serversideincludes = Off
	Iis_smtp = Off
	Iis_webadmin = Off
	Iis_webdav = Off
	Iis_www = Off
	Iis_www_vdir_scripts = Off
	Iis_asp = Off
	SCW = Off
	IEHardenAdmin = Off
	IEHardenUser = Off
	AutoUpdate = Off
	NetOC = On
	WBEMSNMP = On 

[GuiRunOnce]
	Command0=c:\run_once\run_once.bat

[Elliminating Mass Storage drivers/ etc]

We have a limited number of different types of hardware that we will be using my auto-install CD on.

However, no matter what, when you first boot the build process, windows goes through and attempts to load drivers for all kinds of different hardware. This takes a long time, and I would imagine also chews up some disk space.

Can some of these drivers be elliminated, to speed up the install?

Where would I begin?

[Removing the My Documents icon from the Desktop in 2003]

I'm at a loss on this one.

All the discussion seems to be about renaming, or redirecting the "My Documents" icon.

I don't want to do that, I just want to remove it from the desktop.

I found some discussion on how to do that in XP, but that key doesn't seem to exist in 2003. The closest key to it, works wonderfully... Except it removes the IE icon from the desktop, not the "My Documents" icon.

Anyone have any idea what key I'm looking for? Or if there is a simpler way to do it?

[Which registry key to disable the "manage your server" wizar]

So I've got two different registry keys that supposedly disable this guy? What is the difference between the two?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MYS]
"DisableShowAtLogon"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\srvWiz]
@=dword:00000001
"CYSMustRun"=dword:00000000

[Changing the Background on Classic Billboards]

Pic a 800x600 BMP file and re-named to setup_w.bmp and make cabinet file.

Suppose this file is exsiting at root of C: Drive

C:\makecab setup_w.bmp

A file named setup_w.bm_ will be created at root of C: drive , replace with this one to Ur Installation source.

Happy m8!

Worked like a charm, thanks!

[Changing the Background on Classic Billboards]

I would like to change the background on my unattended install to our corporate logo.

This is a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition install.

I followed the directions here:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/74/

In the part labled "Changing the Background" it states the following:

Save the file as setup_w.bmp if you're using Windows XP or setup_s.bmp if using Windows 2003 and replace the original in your i386 directory

However, there doesn't seem to be an "original" file of that name for me to replace. I renamed my graphic accordingly, and placed it in the I386 directory, but it doesn't seem to have worked.

My guess, is that I am missing something obvious. Anyone know what it is?

[Auto Arrange Icons on Desktop]

This topic has some useful info

http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t22555.html

I'm no expert with 2003, but I presume a lot of the registry keys are shared with XP so hopefully this would work for you.

Unfortunately I tried the keys spelled out in that thread, and it didn't work for me.

[Change "My Computer" to "%username% on %computername%&q]

If I understand you want to change the My Computer Icon that appears in Windows Explorer.

To something like this

Then this VBS script will do that

Save as ChangeMyComputerIcon.vbs

Const MY_COMPUTER = &H11&
 Dim Folder,FolderItem, objNetwork, oShell 
  Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
  Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  Set Folder = oShell.Namespace(MY_COMPUTER)
  Set FolderItem = Folder.Self
   FolderItem.Name = objNetwork.UserName & " On " & objNetwork.ComputerName

Yep, that's exactly what I'm trying to do, but I'm trying to do it from within a batch file (for political reasons here at the office.)

Beaker's code in the previous post works perfectly for just the machine name, but I'm having difficulty getting the entire string in there, and having the registry entry use %computername% instead of the value it reflects.

[Change "My Computer" to "%username% on %computername%&q]

This is an unatended installation of Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition.

I would like to change the label on the My Computer icon to read %username% on %computername%.

I've read several different versions of this modification as a registry hack, but all involve deleting the old key and manuallycreating a new one.

How can I script this in as part of my unatended install?

[Auto Arrange Icons on Desktop]

As part of my unattended install of W2K3, I would like to have the icons on the desktop default to auto-arrange.

How can I do this? I've tried a couple of different registry settings, which seem to have had no effect whatsoever. Is there a better way to do it?