These have worked in the past, but now are no longer working with my latest build that has sp2 slipstreamed:

[FavoritesEx]
Title1="CNN.url"
URL1="http://www.cnn.com"
Title2="Google.url"
URL2="http://www.google.com"
Title3="NBC.url"
URL3="http://www.nbc.tv"
Title4="eBay.url"
URL4="http://www.ebay.com"
Title5="Amazon.url"
URL5="http://www.amazon.com"
Title6="HP.url"
URL6="http://www.hp.com"
Title7="Google Maps.url"
URL7="http://maps.google.com"

[URL]
Home_Page=http://www.yahoo.com
Search_Page=http://www.yahoo.com

IE defaults to MSN.com and none of the favorites show up in any of the accounts including admin. Is this no longer valid with SP2, did MS change something or does a setting in nLite or something else prevent this from working like it did before?

Any ideas on this or maybe there's another workaround??

Have you got this entry:

[branding]

BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

in your winnt.sif file?

Have you got this entry:

[branding]

BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

in your winnt.sif file?

No I don't... Is that a Prerequisite to using the & [FavoritesEX] ??

Yes it's necessary:

BrandIEUsingUnattended

Specifies whether to use Unattend.txt or an .ins file to brand Internet Explorer during an unattended Setup.

Syntax BrandIEUsingUnattended = Yes | No

Values Yes

Brands the browser settings by using the entries specified in the browser-specific sections of the answer file: [FavoritesEx], [Proxy], and .

No

Uses the .ins file specified in IEBrandingFile.

Info from ref.chm @ MS deploy.cab

Thank you,

Will add to my winnt.sif and reburn & test.. Guess my previous builds had that statement and my latest with nLite didn't get it..