Hi Guys,

have good experience with Xp answer files but windows 7 seems a whole new ball game. could do with a little explanation on a few bits.

here is the list of mods i want to Acheive, i will be applying the unattended.xml to my SCCM capture & build process.

1. Set name & Company

2. keyboard & regional settings to UK

3. Add corpperate desktop & background to default users

4. Enable RDP

5. Disable Windows Defender

6. Enable Remote Registry

7. Add domain security group to local admin group.

most of the above i have in scripts apart from 1,2,3.

i have located 4 & 5 in unattended.xml so far.

What parse is best to apply these settings? you get several options but not sure when to apply & can you apply all above from the xml file?

set name and company can be done through the sysprep or through registry settings I have it ask the user every time on bootup for the computername.

The keyboard layout I'm sure is part of the localization part of sysprep

The desktop on the other hand can be done through a gpo if you want to or there's other ways.

enable rdp is a registry setting

;enable remote desktop

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Terminal Server]

"fDenyTSConnections"=dword:00000000

;enable tsadvertise

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server]

"TSAdvertise"=dword:00000001

domain security groups could be part of a gpo if you want, at my place they're a bunch of computards who don't get what you can do with active directory but you could always do something like

net localgroup add <your group> once it's in the domain