Prevent Terminal Server Help From Displaying At Logon

October 1, 2007

If it’s the 834th time you’ve seen the Terminal Server help file open after you’ve enabled Terminal Server and you would like to stop this from happening in your automated builds, just delete this registry value before anyone logs onto the box (i.e. via CMDLINES.TXT or SysPrep):

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\TerminalServerInstalled

{ 3 comments }

1 Arne Fokkema October 2, 2007 at 12:07 pm: Nice post and thanks for all the other posts about unattended installations.

After i applied this “fix” within my unattended setup. I wanted to block the Windows Server Post-Setup Updates Window too. After a short search on google i found this article on technet http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/1b6c1f53-618f-4ea0-b52b-ad5456f638481033.mspx?mfr=true

You can add the following line to your CMDLINES.TXT:
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ServerOOBE\SecurityOOBE /v DontLaunchSecurityOOBE /t REG_DWORD /d 0

Keep up the good work!
2 Aaron Parker October 2, 2007 at 12:15 pm: Thanks Arne. You can also add these lines to your UNATTEND.TXT/WINNT.SIF to disable the post setup update screen:

[WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.Off [WindowsFirewall.Off] Mode = 0
3 Arne Fokkema October 2, 2007 at 12:40 pm: Oke, thanks again for the info.