MDT 2010: Problem with local administrator account

[barnold]

Hi,

I'm getting started with MDT 2010 and have an issue with the local administrator account. All machines that I deploy Windows 7 to try to auto-login with the ".\administrator" account and then fail during the first login. The standard local "administrator" account should be auto-logging with the password that is in the unattend.txt and unattend.xml files. Obviously the logins are failing because there is no ".\administrator" account on the machine, but why are they trying to login with ".\administrator" in the first place? This is happening with various OS's in the deployment center and with different task sequences.

Thanks for your time,

brian

[cluberti]

.\Administrator is really == %computername%\Administrator, and if you create a default MDT 2010 task sequence (and provide the password during the TS wizard), the TS should enable the local admin account and set the password. If login is failing, it would sound like either the TS isn't enabling the local admin account during setup, or some other issue has occurred.

[jcummins]

Sounds like you need to just create an administrator account and give it a super long password.