Autoris blanking out login box

[Gaprofitt]

I have a few more questions. I have RIS up and running smoothly now with the Autoris app. Big kudos to all that have helped me..

What is causing the Windows login screen to clear out the username field? This would be a nightmare for my users. My users can't remember which day it is much less the login name.

Does anyone have a list of what I can put in the [components] field? I tried searching google with no luck.

So far everything is going great. I have a selectable OU menu I created by editing custom.osc. How can I add MSI install packages to run automatically after the image is complete. Maybe I should do this through group policy.. I have the autoogin working fine now with a domain account. I am assuming after it logs in one time this is removed in the registry..

How can I incorporate one image/wallpaper for all users?

Thanks,

Greg

Edited May 12, 2006 by Gaprofitt

[RogueSpear]

What is causing the Windows login screen to clear out the username field? This would be a nightmare for my users. My users can't remember which day it is much less the login name.

I don't remember for certain, but I believe that's the default behavior in an AD environment. There is a group policy setting for this which you should apply at the domain level.

Does anyone have a list of what I can put in the [components] field? I tried searching google with no luck.

I'm going to assume you're referring to .SIF file in \Templates. Find the file deploy.cab in the support directory on your Windows XP CD. Decompress the .cab file and you'll find a couple of .chm help files that detail everything you can put in there. Alternatively, I'm sure this information is readily available on Microsoft's web site.

So far everything is going great. I have a selectable OU menu I created by editing custom.osc. How can I add MSI install packages to run automatically after the image is complete. Maybe I should do this through group policy.. I have the autoogin working fine now with a domain account. I am assuming after it logs in one time this is removed in the registry..

Unless you have SMS or something similar, then yes, you'll probably want to deploy any software packaged as an .msi file through group policy at the OU level. If you look at the final script, I wipe out all of the autologon stuff from the registry.

How can I incorporate one image/wallpaper for all users?

This can be done in group policy.

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