two questions

[Special Access]

1. sysocmgr.exe Can anyone point me to a comprehensive list of what
can, and can not, be used with this program? TechNet has little, or
no explaination other than "unattend.txt"... which doesn't tell me
anything either. I would like to know what components can be removed
using this command-line.

2. Password Never Expires. Is there a command-line tool that can
remove this checkbox? The "powers that be" decided to create an
admin-capable account during the unattended installation, but this box
is checked. We will have to manually remove this box on quite a few
computers if we can't find a command-line way to do it.

Thanks!

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Special Access wrote:

> 1. sysocmgr.exe Can anyone point me to a comprehensive list of what
> can, and can not, be used with this program? TechNet has little, or
> no explaination other than "unattend.txt"... which doesn't tell me
> anything either. I would like to know what components can be removed
> using this command-line.

"unattend.doc" on the Windows 2000 server CD maybe.

From a previous post of mine:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3EAEF13E.7C4114E7%40hydro.com



> 2. Password Never Expires. Is there a command-line tool that can
> remove this checkbox? The "powers that be" decided to create an
> admin-capable account during the unattended installation, but this box
> is checked. We will have to manually remove this box on quite a few
> computers if we can't find a command-line way to do it.

Tip 570 at for a freeware command line tool (NETUSER.EXE):
http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm

This should do it then:

NETUSER.EXE jeanette /pwnexp:y


--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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[Special Access]

On Wed, 07 May 2003 06:10:14 +0200, "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)"
> wrote:

>Special Access wrote:
>
>> 1. sysocmgr.exe Can anyone point me to a comprehensive list of what
>> can, and can not, be used with this program? TechNet has little, or
>> no explaination other than "unattend.txt"... which doesn't tell me
>> anything either. I would like to know what components can be removed
>> using this command-line.
>
>"unattend.doc" on the Windows 2000 server CD maybe.
>
>From a previous post of mine:
>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3EAEF13E.7C4114E7%40hydro.com
>
>
>
>> 2. Password Never Expires. Is there a command-line tool that can
>> remove this checkbox? The "powers that be" decided to create an
>> admin-capable account during the unattended installation, but this box
>> is checked. We will have to manually remove this box on quite a few
>> computers if we can't find a command-line way to do it.
>
>Tip 570 at for a freeware command line tool (NETUSER.EXE):
>http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm
>
>This should do it then:
>
>NETUSER.EXE jeanette /pwnexp:y


Thanks for the JSIINC link...
As for the other, all of those links mention the exact same
parameters... and there is only about 3-5 of them listed. I guess
another long look at the unattend.doc is in order, along with a lot of
experimentation.