Autologon and GPO

[Vits]

Greetings One and All.

I (ahem!) finally got of my ar$e and set up RIS for recycling the setup of machines on my network. Its a small network, just 45 machines locally and 120 in the UK.

I managed to get over most of the hurdles like Intel/PXE drivers, Broadcom/PXE drivers, slipstreaming SP2, using nlite, RyanVM stuff and "Bâshrat the Sneaky's". Thanks to all the people have put the effort into providing the resource to us newbies .

My last one utter utter pratt of a problem. I have set the ristndrd.sif file to do the autologon, and have the cmdlines.txt file apply the following tweak

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"DefaultUserName"="joe_admin"

"DefaultPassword"="joe_password"

"DefaultDomainName"="joe_domain"

"AltDefaultDomainName"="joe_domain"

"CachePrimaryDomain"="joe_domain"

"ShowLogonOptions"=dword:00000001

"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

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BUT!. gasp. the domain GPO has a "Interactive Logon" banner message (GPO: Computer\Windows Settings\Secuirty Settings\Local Policies\Interactive Logon).

In itself, not an issue, but auto login will not pass this point without a keypress. If I create another OU, move the computer-to-be-ris'ed into that, and set that OU to block inheritance, all the scripting works!!! YAHHHHH!!!

Is there a regkey that I can toggle on at cmdlines to block GPO, then to reset on the cleanup.cmd side that i run at the tail of install process.

Im not allowed to turn off the GPO banner message (grumble), which is the easiest method.

Any ideas.

Regards

Dave

[nitro322]

I don't fully understand how you're setting up these boxes (installing vs. imaging, etc.), but you should be able to bypass the Interactive Logon prompt by deleting these registry keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"legalnoticecaption"=-
"legalnoticetext"=-

Of course, next time group policy is applied the values will be overwritten, but it should allow you to login without being prompted that first time.

Edited September 5, 2006 by nitro322