AutoAdminLogon in Windows Server 2019 not working

Question

Hello all, for automation purposes in my home lab I try to activate the AutoAdminLogon in Server 2019 but it does not work. I also take a look into gpedit.msc to be sure that interactive logon message text and title is empty but still no auto logon. During my test I changed the password in the registry to see if Windows reacts to the wrong password and it does. Windows told me after a reboot that my password is wrong but if I use the correct password, nothing happens. In addition I try Autologon from sysinternals as well but the same issue.

I used those settings:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultUserName"="Administrator"
"DefaultPassword"="Pa$$w0rd"
"DefaultDomainName"="WIN-P1TQU9M6OE6"

Any idae how to solve this issue?

Cheers

Answer 1

Got it! I use Hyper-V with EEnhanced Session". It is necessary to uncheck Enhanced Session. Now it works.

Answer 2

Currently I testing a simple CMD script:
reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /d 1 /f
reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon" /v AutoLogonCount /t REG_DWORD /d 10 /f
reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon" /v DefaultDomainName /d WIN-P1TQU9M6OE6 /f
reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon" /v DefaultUserName /d Administrator /f
reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon" /v DefaultPassWord /d Pa$$w0rd /f

AutoAdminLogon is still not functional but I can see that the count of 10 will decrease by 1 after every reboot.