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Guest customization with Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise and R2 Forces Administrator to Change Password (1020428)

After Sysprep guest customization with Windows 2008 Enterprise and R2, Lab Manager forces the system administrator to change the password.

Do one of the following:

With Using customization hook - right click on the virtual machine template, select Customization Script..., and type the following in the text box:
net user Administrator /logonpasswordchg:NO
With Using SetupComplete.cmd - unpublish and deploy the virtual machine template. In the guest OS, create the file %WINDIR%\Setup\Scripts\SetupComplete.cmd. (For more information, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766314(WS.10).aspx.) Add this command:

net user Administrator /logonpasswordchg:NO

to the file you just created, shut down the template, and publish it.

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