Unattended Setup: Local User accounts are not generated

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Hi there,

Upon checking my installation in a virtual machine I found that the 2 local accounts (admin and regular user) are not generated.
The Login is a random administrator account. Also the set computer name is not applied.

In the previous installation this worked.
The only change in this installation in the unattended section was adding the regular user account and setting a password for the admin account.

Any advices what could be the problem?

Many thanks in advance.
Hannes
 

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Hey Garlin,

Ok so my setting would generate a second administrator to the existing built-in then?

Do you also have an idea, why the computer name isn't set?
 
There is only one Administrator account.

Any user account can belong to Administrators group. You will have Admin rights, but are technically not the Administrator since it's an unique user identity. Administrator always has the same SID (Security ID) on every Windows system, whereas your SID is randomly created.

MS doesn't recommend using the Administrator account, but it's your choice to enable it. They believe for security reasons, everyone is sloppy and better to keep separate user accounts so UAC constantly reminds you to pay attention. Turning off UAC leads to sloppy mistakes.

I don't know why the ComputerName doesn't take effect.
 
Ok, thanks for clarification.

I found out, why I had problems: I installed my Windows using the VM-Ware dialogue when setting up the virtual machine. There I set the file location of the windows image and also a user account name is preset which can't be left blank. I didn't see this.

Now I set up a blank virtual machine and load the image into its CD-drive.
 
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