Create media for automated unattended install of Windows 10  

Hi Kari,

You really did a big job here, I appreciate your precious work. I just got stuck at the login page. I actually managed to go through all step smoothly until reaching to sign in screen and It shows "Other user" title instead of "Administrator" name which I have set in the Answer file, it has also 2 prompt for username and password. I typed both username and password I configured earlier but unfortunately, it show me this message: "Your account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator.

Not sure though but I guess maybe it have something to do with the username itself since I named it similarly to the built-in Administrator name and it might confused it with that one? .. I would really appreciate any suggestion you have for this problem. Thank you

@Wolfy7, could you post your unattend.xml answer file here for review?

hsehestedt said:

@Wolfy7, could you post your unattend.xml answer file here for review?

Thanks hsehestedt, I actually managed to solve the issue. As i expected, it was due to the naming of the local admin account. It shouldn't be named "Administrator" at all which I think the system confuse it with the built-in one. I named it Admin as in the tutorial and it worked fine.

Ah yes - I didn't realize that you actually used "Administrator".

Glad you got it solved.

@Kari Yeah that's right, though sometimes quite obvious things can be missed so easily.

Kari said:

The built-in admin is disabled by default. If you want to enable the built-in admin, you can do it in answer file. Just add component Microsoft-Windows-Deployment anywhere in settings pass Specialize in Unattend.xml, then add a synchronous command to be run at end phases of OOBE to enable the account:

Also I think that if you use AutoLogon option to login autmatically after installation, it should activate Administrator account(?)

Like this:

Code:

<AutoLogon>
                <Password>
            		<Value>MyPassword</Value> 
            		<PlainText>true</PlainText> 
         	</Password>
         	<Username>Administrator</Username> 
         	<Enabled>true</Enabled> 
         	<LogonCount>1</LogonCount> 
</AutoLogon>
            <UserAccounts>
                <AdministratorPassword>
                    <Value>MyPassword</Value>
                    <PlainText>true</PlainText>
                </AdministratorPassword>
            </UserAccounts>

Also Kari, why do you recommend using CopyProfile option if apparently it has major bugs and Microsoft doesn't recommend it and it's called by them "deprecated"?

@fastfaster,

Pardon my jumping in, but I believe that you are thinking only about one narrow usage of CopyProfile that is deprecated, and that is for the start menu.

See this documentation from Microsoft:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/arc...een-deprecated

From that same document:

Q: Are other portions of CopyProfile still supported in Windows 10?
A: Yes, everything in CopyProfile except the “Start Menu” and “Taskbar” layout are supported in Windows 10.


As for autologon, you would specify the admin level username that you want to logon with (not Administrator itself).

If you need more info on autologon let me know. I've written myself some extensive notes on using this because I've experimented with it a lot and use it frequently.

@fastfaster I was thinking the same actually. Copy Profile is causing the annoying "Default app reset" notification, which I got also when I did it in this answer file. I know that copy profile is used to customize the appearances and display. However, I don't know if it going to impact the other processes like the admin account if not set "true".

Have u tried not to set the copy profile as true? I didn't try that yet. Just to avoid the popups after booting.