AutoLogon fails after OOBE

[Psycholiquid]

I had my image made and have done this for years. Somehow my dummy self messed up and rebooted the image with the unattend.xml in the sysprep folder.

Now the Administrator password is not blank and when I run OOBE it says “user name and password incorrect”

Does anyone have any idea on how to get this back to blank.

I have done the following:

Reset and pressed OK with nothing there.
Hit enter to just allow for a blank password
Ran the NT Password Recovery disk and chose to blank the password form it.

No dice on any of that. I have to be missing something, like a reg key or something. I have scoured the internet for days. I might need fresh eyes if anyone has any ideas.

[Psycholiquid]

Forgot to add this is for Windows 7

[Lee Rowlett]

add this code into /images/postscripts/fog.postdownload

clearScreen;
mkdir /ntfs &>/dev/null
ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs
dots "Mounting Device";
if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
	echo "Done";
	. ${postdownpath}fog.ad
	umount /ntfs;
else
	echo "Failed To Mount Device";
	sleep 30;
fi

[Lee Rowlett]

then create a new file in the same location as fog.postdownload called fog.ad and you can edit the sysprep file however you would like - this changes the unattend.xml AFTER the machine is imaged and pulls the info for that host from fog, making the unattend.xml unique and set with the info for that host.

using the below you could use sed command to edit the local admin password set in your unattend.xml to match what you want it to be, just follow how below works.

#!/bin/sh

hostadpwd="password-to-join-domain";
panther="/ntfs/Windows/Panther/unattend.xml";
if [ -f "$panther" ]; then
	unattend="/ntfs/Windows/Panther/unattend.xml";
else
	if [ $osid == "9" ]; then
		unattend="/ntfs/Windows/System32/Sysprep/unattend.xml";
	else
		unattend="/ntfs/Windows/System32/sysprep/unattend.xml";
	fi
fi

if [ -f "$unattend" ]; then
	dots "Writing Computer Name";
	sed -i "/ComputerName/s/*/$hostname/g" $unattend
	echo "Done";
	dots "ComputerName Set To";
	echo $hostname
	dots "Set PC To Join The Domain";
	if [ "$addomain" != "" ]; then
		sed -i "/<JoinWorkgroup>/d" $unattend
		sed -i -e "s|<Password></Password>|<Password>${hostadpwd}</Password>|g" \
			-e "s|<Username></Username>|<Username>${addomain}\\\\${aduser}</Username>|g" \
			-e "s|<MachineObjectOU></MachineObjectOU>|<MachineObjectOU>${adou}</MachineObjectOU>|g" \
			-e "s|<JoinDomain></JoinDomain>|<JoinDomain>${addomain}</JoinDomain>|g" $unattend
		echo "Done";
	else
		echo "Skipped";
	fi

fi

[Psycholiquid]

I will take a look at this once I get it settled in the environment. The way I got around it for now was to create the SetupComplete.CMD file and put what I needed in there so it would start the FOG service once imaging was complete and it is working good now.

I’m not a coder so it all looks like Greek to me but I know I can figure out what I am looking at. And thank you for the suggestion.