Hi guys, I've read a lot about that topic, but I simply can't get my setup to work as I like. I have a riprep image which has the local administrator account set to disabled. As far as I know this can be changed by removing the line DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin=1 (or setting it to 0) in the according riprep.sif file. I did that, but it didn't change anything. I always get the error that the local admin account is disabled. I also tried several other options like enableadminpass and EnableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin (I found these after searching with google, but they aren't documented by MS, are they?!). Well, perhaps you want to check my current riprep.sif file: E:\RemoteInstall\Setup\German\Images\awinxpsp3mp\i386\Templates\riprep.sif [data] floppyless = "1" msdosinitiated = "1" OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" OriTyp = "4" LocalSourceOnCD = 1 UnattendedInstall=Yes EnableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin=1 [SetupData] OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect" SetupSourceDevice ="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%" SysPrepDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%SYSPREPPATH%" SysPrepDriversDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%SYSPREPDRIVERS%" [Unattended] OemPreinstall = Yes 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DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore FileSystem = LeaveAlone ExtendOEMPartition = 0 TargetPath = \WINDOWS OemSkipEula = yes InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" LegacyNIC = 1 UnattendMode=FullUnattended UnattendSwitch=Yes [UserData] FullName = "Company XY" OrgName = "Company XY" ComputerName ="%MACHINENAME%" ProductID = xxxxx [GuiUnattended] OemSkipWelcome = 1 OemSkipRegional = 1 TimeZone = %TIMEZONE% EncryptedAdminPassword = No AutoLogon = Yes AutoLogonCount = 1 AdminPassword = password [Display] BitsPerPel = 16 XResolution = 800 YResolution = 600 VRefresh = 60 [Networking] [NetServices] MS_Server=params.MS_PSched [Identification] JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes DomainAdmin = Administrator DomainAdminPassword = password [RemoteInstall] Repartition = Yes UseWholeDisk = Yes [OSChooser] Description="Standard-Workstation, MP" Help="Blah" LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com" ImageType=SYSPREP Version="5.1 (2600)" SysPrepSystemRoot="Mirror1\UserData\WINDOWS" HalName=halmacpi.dll ProductType=0 Well, the second thing I tried was explicit enabling the local admin account in our group policy and with "net user Administrator /active:yes" in my cmdlines.txt file. It doesn't work (it seems that the cmdlines.txt file isn't even recognized, I don't see anything on the screen, even not after adding the "pause" command in cmdlines.txt...). Do you have any idea what I do wrong? Thanks in advance. -Michael