Windows 7 Guest on vCloud Director

[babarton]

I have a Win 7 64-bit vapp that I am trying to deploy in VCD 1.5.   The vApp is provisioned successfully, but when the guest customizations occur (sysprep?), it appears to remove the Administrator account.  I have another Admin account configured on the template, therefore I can log in fine with that one and verify that the network was configured correctly.  I can also see that the Administrator account is no longer configured.  Anyone else run into this issue?

[rbudavari]

The administrator account is disabled as part of the sysprep process with Windows 7, as per:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744293(v=ws.10).aspx

A possible solution is to create a guest customization script (refer to: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102661...)

which runs:

net user administrator /active:yes

as a postcustomization if you have a requirement to use this account.