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Sysprep Answer File: Enabling Admin Account

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Monday, July 16, 2018 7:29 PM

So I am trying to setup an answer file that will skip through some of the OOBE screens, which does that fine. But I am trying to get it to enable the administrator account and set the password. After I sysprep a machine and reboot it, if I try typing in the local admin account and password it says the account is disabled. Here is my xml file below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="specialize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <WindowsFeatures>
                <ShowWindowsMail>false</ShowWindowsMail>
                <ShowInternetExplorer>true</ShowInternetExplorer>
            </WindowsFeatures>
            <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
            <DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>false</DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>
        </component>
        
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <AutoLogon>
         <Password>
            <Value>SecurePasswd123</Value> 
            <PlainText>true</PlainText> 
         </Password>
         <Username>Administrator</Username> 
         <Enabled>true</Enabled> 
         <LogonCount>5</LogonCount> 
      </AutoLogon>
      <UserAccounts>
         <AdministratorPassword>
            <Value>SecurePasswd123</Value> 
            <PlainText>true</PlainText> 
         </AdministratorPassword>
      </UserAccounts>
   </component>
        
    </settings>
    <settings pass="oobeSystem">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <OOBE>
                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
                <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
                <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
                <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
                <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
            </OOBE>
            <WindowsFeatures>
                <ShowInternetExplorer>true</ShowInternetExplorer>
                <ShowWindowsMail>false</ShowWindowsMail>
                <ShowWindowsMediaPlayer>true</ShowWindowsMediaPlayer>
            </WindowsFeatures>
            <BluetoothTaskbarIconEnabled>false</BluetoothTaskbarIconEnabled>
            
            
            <UserAccounts>
                <AdministratorPassword>
                    <Value>SecurePasswd123</Value>
                    <PlainText>true</PlainText>
                </AdministratorPassword>
            </UserAccounts>
            
            
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/users/tester/desktop/win10/sources/install.wim#Windows 10 Pro" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? 

All replies (2)

Monday, July 16, 2018 10:48 PM âś…Answered | 1 vote

Are you running 64-bit Windows? Perhaps the section for the Admin account should be in the    processorArchitecture="amd64"  section.

Ian Broadbent

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 5:45 PM

That is exactly what it was. Also since changing that I moved everything into one component under the specialize class, and it works great!