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Andreas Kerl
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Dec 29, 2019

Auto-login after restart

Hi all, I'll use the new feature in msix packaging tool for desktop installers that require a restart. My msi fires a 3010 and everything works fine; in UI mode I'll reboot manually and in cmdline m...
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Andreas Kerl
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Jan 08, 2020

James Pike 

 

Hi James,

thanks for your help. The following setting work ...

 

<p4:RemoteMachine ComputerName="W10-19035X64" Username="TestUser" p3:EnableAutoLogon="true" />

 

... but there's a big limitation on non-english systems. For auto reboot functionalitly the tool creates the tempory user "MSIXPackagingToolTmp" and add him to the local admin group. This fails on german systems because the group name "Administrators" is hard coded, not localized and doesn't exist on german systems.

Thanks
Andreas

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James Pike
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Jan 08, 2020

Andreas Kerl 

 

Hi Andreas,

 

Ah, That's clearly a bug in our implementation.  I'll get an item filed to correct that in future versions of the tool.

 

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Thanks!
James

 

 

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