How to disable a task sequence in OS but having it enabled in WinPE

Question

Hello,

I followed this guide so my users would be able to create their own local accounts, which works perfectly fine in Windows PE:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cc905a03-db85-4c7b-9ca4-c9c83b083864/w10-prompt-to-create-local-user-during-mini-setup?forum=mdt

I modified the script by adding a "repeat password" with validation, I basically looked on the .XML for: DeployWiz_AdminPassword.xml

But if I start Litetouch.vbs from Windows to install additional software, the task sequence ask for creation of local account and I won't be able to bypass it without create another account.

In my DeployWiz_Definition_ENU.xml I added the following, with some hope I could use SkipLocalAccount=YES in my customsettings.exe but it didn't work.

I also tried to add the following in my customsettings.ini:

[Settings]  
Priority=TaskSequenceID, Default, Model, Default, SetOSD  
Properties=MakeAlias, ModelAlias, OSDPrefix, TaskSequenceID  
  
[APPS]  
SkipLocalAccount=YES  
SkipCreateLocalAccount=YES  
  
[TaskSequenceID]  
SkipLocalAccount=YES  
SkipCreateLocalAccount=YES  

How can I enable CreateLocalAccount in WindowsPE but having it disabled in OS?

Thaaaank you!

BR

Answer 1

Hi, @lupinlicious
Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

You have modified the DeployWiz_Definition_ENU.xml, so when the deployment wizard show up, the user must create a local account.

I think you may consider to create another deployment share for install software in OS.

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Answer 2

Thank you @AllenLiu-MSFT

Can I not do the following: \IP\DS\scripts\litetouch.vbs /TaskSequenceID:002 /SkipLocalAccount /SkipTaskSequence:YES", 0, True ?

TaskSequenceID:002 would be to install applications (creation of user account would be unnecessary to see when you are inside Windows)

Am I missing something about how the /Skip properties is working?

Best regards

Answer 3

I also tried to create a new task sequence (ID=005) with the following command lines:

cmd /c net user %LocalUserName% %LocalUserPassword% /ADD
cmd /c net localgroup administrators %LocalUserName% /ADD

And from my Windows installation task sequence, I added "Run Task Sequence" and selected ID 005 under "Custom Tasks".
I have also selected "Hide this task sequence in the deployment wizard"

Since the Windows installation has been assigned ID 005, it should run during WinPE but the task sequence should be hidden if I run LiteTouch.vbs?

This also didn't work: \IP\DS\scripts\litetouch.vbs /TaskSequenceID:002 /SkipTaskSequenceID:005 /SkipTaskSequence:YES", 0, True ?

Answer 4

After that I have added the following line in ZTIgather.xml everything is working now with /Skip:

<property id="SkipLocalAccount" type="string" overwrite="false" description="Skip Local Accounts)" />