P7 FirstLogonCommands

Question

I have autologon enabled and count set to 1.  I have 3 synchronous commands which run once during that autologon:

- Batch file to install some applications

- ewfmgr.exe c: -enable

- shutdown.exe /s /t 0

After this all completes, I harvest the image and consider it to be golden and ready to deploy.  Am I missing anything?  It seems to work.

What might bite me later?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Did you run sysprep?

-Sean

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www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com / www.annabooks.com, Book Author - Pro Guide to WES 7, XP Embedded Advanced, Pro Guide to POS for .NET

Answer 2

Did you run sysprep?

-Sean

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www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com / www.annabooks.com, Book Author - Pro Guide to WES 7, XP Embedded Advanced, Pro Guide to POS for .NET

No, I did not explicitly run sysprep.  What's that mean for me?  PnpSysprep_x86 is in my answer file.  But, none of the parameters are changed from default.

I don't use any of the Win7e tooling to capture my final image.  I have my own process for capture and deploy.  ImageX is not used.  So, would I simply substitute

- sysprep.exe /generalize /quiet /shutdown

for my final shutdown command in the FirstLogonCommands synchronous commands?  Is it kosher to run sysprep from P7 first logon?

Thanks.

Answer 3

Did you run sysprep?

-Sean

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www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com / www.annabooks.com, Book Author - Pro Guide to WES 7, XP Embedded Advanced, Pro Guide to POS for .NET

No, I did not explicitly run sysprep.  What's that mean for me?  PnpSysprep_x86 is in my answer file.  But, none of the parameters are changed from default.

I don't use any of the Win7e tooling to capture my final image.  I have my own process for capture and deploy.  ImageX is not used.  So, would I simply substitute

- sysprep.exe /generalize /quiet /shutdown

for my final shutdown command in the FirstLogonCommands synchronous commands?  Is it kosher to run sysprep from P7 first logon?

Thanks.

It looks like sysprep requires either /oobe or /audit.  I don't want either.  When FirstLogonCommands complete, my image is ready.  I can capture it and write it to read-only media.  When booting the read-only media, it behaves just as I want.  I'll concede that I need to regenerate the SID, but I can't see how sysprep makes that happen.  I don't want audit mode or windows welcome.  I'm missing something.

Help me Obi Wan.  You are my last hope.

Regards.

Answer 4

Do you have any problem? i don't get the point right now ^^

As long as the machines (non-syspreped) don't work in the same environment, i don't see any problems at all.

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Windows Embedded Developer and Scripting Guy //Germany (Preparing a blog about Windows Embedded Standard)

Answer 5

Do you have any problem? i don't get the point right now ^^

As long as the machines (non-syspreped) don't work in the same environment, i don't see any problems at all.

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Windows Embedded Developer and Scripting Guy //Germany (Preparing a blog about Windows Embedded Standard)

Could the machines be running on the same network?  Yes.

Answer 6

Even if they do work in the same network, they'll just grumble a bit. Elsewhere you find links about having to change SID as a waste of time.

While sysprep is no favourite of mine, I can see you doing something like:

create user in P5, add auto logon for this user

frob your auto logon user with its batch file etc. So that particular user is ready to roll when the machine boots for real.

in your sysprep /unattend:blah.xml, make sure you have skipuser skipmachine skippythekangaroo etc so it doesnt change anything.

add some magic sauce to turn on ewf when it first logs in.

sysprep /oobe it. and that is your golden master.

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