RE: Riprep of WinXP SP2 disables local administrator

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From: Darrell Gorter[MSFT] (Darrellg_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:17:05 GMT

Hello John,
See this article:
Which should give you the setting to change this behavior.
320490 How to turn on the local administrator account on a remote computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320490
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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>From: "John Smith" <bill.gates@microsoft.com>
>Subject: Riprep of WinXP SP2 disables local administrator
>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:18:12 +1100
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>I updated one of our RIS images of WinXP Pro with SP2, but when this image
>is used on a workstation, it installs with the local administrator account
>disabled. i.e. I can setup a WinXP SP2 workstation with the local
>administrator account enabled, verify that it is enabled by logging in as
>that account, then login as a domain admin account and run riprep, but
when
>I build a workstation from that RIS image, the local administrator account
>is installed as disabled.
>
>The same problem does not happen when creating a RIS image from a WinXP
SP1
>workstation to the same RIS server with exactly the same riprep
executable,
>so it does not appear to be riprep per se that is causing this to happen.
>
>The RIS server is Win2000 SP4.
>
>Nick Payne
>
>
>

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