Recently we did a deploy of some Windows stations. Well, they were kinda’ Windows stations, but really Macs running Parallels and Boot Camp. At first things seemed great. Then we realized the deployed VMs and Boot Camp images were automatically logging in. So looking into it, it turned out that there was a few keys we needed to remove the contents of registry keys in the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon
Keys we blanked out included DefaultUserName, AutoAdminLogon and DefaultPassowrd. The most alarming thing was that DefaultPassword showed the local admin password used during the installation process. As a temporary workaround until we could get this fixed we had the users logging on holding down the shift key (to bypass the admin logon) and then logging in as their own accounts… Love doing heterogenous mass deployments…