Friday, 13 September 2013

Can't login after running sysprep?

When running sysprep, the password usually doesn't change unless you get clever with unattended installation scripts.

However if you're using a non-standard (e.g. renamed) local admin account, you may be unable to log on to it after running sysprep.  This is because sysprep actually renames the local admin account back to "Administrator" but leaves the password unchanged.

Just login with Administrator and your password and you should be able to log in ok (tested with Windows 2008 R2 but I'm sure all versions of Windows are the same).

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