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Proposed Copy User Profile to Default User Using MDT

  • Saturday, February 09, 2013 9:12 PM
     
     
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    Looking into how Win7 handles copying profiles (way diff than XP, or maybe i was doing it wrong in XP) it seems it's only possible through the unattend.xml file.

    Since i've got this file already (in "DeploymentShare\Control\<task_sequence_id>\unattend.xml"), i was wondering how (or i guess "where") would i add the line "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup\CopyProfile" so that it copies the profile over to the Default User profile.

    and i guess i should also ask "how do i specify the name of the profile i want to use to overwrite the default user" (my current profile that i use to configure things is "BuildUser")

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  • Saturday, February 09, 2013 10:03 PM
     
     
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    When you create a task sequence there's an OS Info tab for accessing the associated unattend.xml file. There's a button there that will launch WSIM, from there add the change and save it. It will apply to any deployments from that task sequence.

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  • Saturday, February 09, 2013 10:06 PM
     
     
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    Check out Johan's explanation of CopyProfile (http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/43/How-CopyProfile-really-works-in-Windows-7-Deployments.aspx).  You want to use the CopyProfile in your Unattend.xml in your Deploy task sequence.  Also, if using CopyProfile, you should be using the default admin account to configure it, not a custom user.  See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2101557 for limitations and issues and logging to help determine which account CopyProfile ran against.

    David Coulter | http://DCtheGeek.blogspot.com | @DCtheGeek

     
  • Monday, February 11, 2013 6:51 PM
     
     
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    that button seems to kick off a cataloging process that takes forever.  just browsing to the unattend.xml file, i found this section:

    <settings pass="specialize">

    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State">
          <ComputerName></ComputerName>
          <ProductKey>xxx</ProductKey>
          <RegisteredOrganization>xxx</RegisteredOrganization>
          <RegisteredOwner>xxx</RegisteredOwner>
          <TimeZone></TimeZone>
          <DoNotCleanTaskBar>true</DoNotCleanTaskBar>
    </component>

    could i add the CopyProfile=True to this file manually?  do you know the syntax?

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  • Monday, February 11, 2013 9:44 PM
     
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    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748953(v=ws.10).aspx

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    • Proposed As Answer by Ty Glander Monday, February 11, 2013 11:22 PM
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  • Monday, February 11, 2013 11:26 PM
     
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    <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
    got it, thanks

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