Autologon
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:47 PM
Hi
I have been using the fix from alexsemi to allow autologon when you have the legal notice on your domain logon screen.
It works fine delaying the domain add for where it auto logs in to install applications etc. but once its done the domain add at the end of the task sequence it reboots and then sits on the legal notice screen. I click OK and it auto logs in as administrator 1 last time. Is it supposed to login one last time after the domain add? Can i stop this? I'd like it so that when the task sequence is finished a user can log straight on, obviously i don't want then to click OK and be logged on as administrator the first time.
In my task sequence xml file under MDTshare\Control\<Tasksequenceid>\Unattend.xml auto login section has the default of 999 or is it 99 logins (basically as many as it needs). I tried putting this down to like just 3 or 4 so it only does the minimum but didn't seem to work.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:00 AM
Hello,
I have same experience like you during my initial deployment. If I remember correctly, I removed UserAccounts in the oobeSystem and it works after 1 count of the autologon.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:28 AM
Hi
I've tried that and it didn't work. It screwed things up actually and wouldn't log on at the end as the administrator account.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to why it needs to log on 1 last time at the end? I've noticed in the monitoring section on MDT console, that it doesn't say finished until it has done this last login. Its like chicken and egg - it needs to login at the end to finish but can't because of the domain legal message, but needs to be added to the domain for it to finish.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:00 PM
Do you have a reboot action somewhere in the task sequence after the domain join action?
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:41 PM
Hi Stephan
No there is nothing after the domain join. It seems to do the domain join when the screen says Please Wait... then it gives the logon screen with the legal notice, i click OK and it logs on one last time. then it finishes and not until it does this last logon does the monitoring part of MDT says its finished.
Regards
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 3:46 PM
Does it do anything else when it logs in the last time? Sounds like it is rebooting before the task sequence finishes. When the TS ends, it should clear out all the autologon info.
I'm using the same process, and it works fine for me. I need to make sure that there are no reboots inside the TS called after I do the domain join, as Stephan states. I set FinishAction=Reboot, and when the sequence is done, the PC reboots and comes back up to Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
If for example you are running the Windows Update task after you've joined the domain, and an update requires a reboot, it will stop at the legal notice after that reboot. Then when you click through, the task sequence will finish and clean up.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:36 PM
http://sdrv.ms/QYe3Q7
Thats a picture of my task sequence.
As you can see the domain parts are at the end. There are some other items which are disabled because I've tried various things to try and sort this problem.
In this view, I've stripped it down e.g. disabled applications and packages.
I've tried adding items at the end to delete the text in the registry of the legal notice and then gpupdate to restore it but for any of that to run it waits for me to click and do the last auto login.As you say I've tried FinishAction=Reboot and it does this action only after I click OK and it logs in, then reboots. If iI don't use FinishAction then it just stays logged in, as that login finishes the task sequence.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:43 PM
Can you specify what happens during the Install default profile and customize IE steps? Also what is the lock workstation task for if it's at the very end of your task sequence?
On first sight I can't find anything in particular that's wrong.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:10 PM
Are you installing any applications that are flagged to reboot the machine after they are installed?
I've also seen some installations that use the silent install commands but the "/norestart" or equivalent is left out by accident, so the machine reboots automatically.
-Nick O.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:18 PM
Are you installing any applications that are flagged to reboot the machine after they are installed?
I've also seen some installations that use the silent install commands but the "/norestart" or equivalent is left out by accident, so the machine reboots automatically.
-Nick O.
Hi
No applications are flagged for reboot if required. Also all the applications install without rebooting in between, and the domain add is after the applications anyway. Also I've temporarily disabled the applications section while i test and its still not working correctly.
I don't think its anything to do with applications.
I've just created a fresh task sequence, disabled packages and applications. The only change I've made is the driver variable for the folders and the save joindomain fix.
I'll post the results
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Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:26 AM
Hi
Kinda got to the bottom of it. It was the TaskSequenceID section in my customsettings.ini file. Under this i had Application and MandatoryApplications to install which did work fine with the fix on here to edit the script and get it to show on the application pane in the wizard but even though I had applications step disabled in the task sequence it was still failing until I removed the TaskSequenceID from my customsettings.ini file. So for now I've left it out.
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Friday, October 05, 2012 2:59 PM
i am having the same issue, after the first time auto log in, it comes with click CNT+ALT+DEL to log in!
is it possibly to explain how to fix this?
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Friday, October 12, 2012 6:47 PM
I'm not tired to recommend Logonexpert for further Windows autologon after deployment, it's only one solution that works in 99.9%i am having the same issue, after the first time auto log in, it comes with click CNT+ALT+DEL to log in!
is it possibly to explain how to fix this?
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