SMS Deployment of Office 2007: Silent w/o user interaction concern
- From: David Receveur
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:12:42 -0700
Microsoft certainly makes it a pain in the ass to get exclusive control of a workstation during SMS installs.
One way to minimize user interaction with an SMS install is to disable the loading of the Windows Shell (Explorer.exe)located in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell. If you clear this value the desktop or taskbar will not load if a user happens to logon at some point during the script execution.
This should be one of the first steps in your wrapper script. Remember to backup the original value of SHELL before erasing it so it can be restored before you exit the script and reboot.
If anything happend to abort the wrapper script before the install is complete the SHELL value will need to be restored manually by an administrator. There are ways to script around this.
You should research\experiment with the SHELL value to get accustom to its behavior before scripting a solution.
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