Enabling Remote Desktop for Windows 7 as a task sequence

Question

Hi there.
I have a task sequence to automate the creation of a base image of Windows 7 x64 Professional. In my base image I would like to have Remote Desktop enabled by default for all users. Is there a command or a script to do this that I can add into my task sequence to make this possible?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I have to agree except I can't understand why anyone would use anything other than the unattend.xml.  You can do all that plus so much more and it's the way Microsoft provides to do it.  This is my complete x64 unattend.xml version but I also have
an x86 version.  This should give you some idea of it's capabilities.
Drop the unattend.xml file into a package and reference it in the Task Sequence as shown below.  I dropped both my x86 and x64 version of the unattend.xml into the package.  I use an OSD HTA menu on the frontend to let helpdesk pick
between x86 and x64.  I cropped the picture up a bit and took out company specific info but you should get the idea from the screen captures.  This is how I deploy x86 and x64 in a single task sequence. I mark every line with a condition in the task
sequence with (C) which makes it easier to find lines with conditions.  I use the condition to assign x86 and x64 software among other things.  The selection in the HTA pretty much triggers everything.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <settings pass="auditSystem">
   </settings>
   <settings pass="auditUser">
   </settings>
   <settings pass="generalize">
   </settings>
   <settings pass="offlineServicing">
   </settings>
   <settings pass="oobeSystem">
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS">
         <OOBE>
            <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
            <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
            <SkipMachineOOBE>false</SkipMachineOOBE>
            <SkipUserOOBE>false</SkipUserOOBE>
            <ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC>
         </OOBE>
         <UserAccounts>
            <DomainAccounts>
               <DomainAccountList wcm:action="add">
                  <DomainAccount wcm:action="add">
                     <Name>Workstation Admins</Name>
                     <Group>Administrators</Group>
                  </DomainAccount>
                  <Domain>DOMAIN</Domain>
               </DomainAccountList>
            </DomainAccounts>
         </UserAccounts>
      </component>
   </settings>
   <settings pass="specialize">
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-LUA-Settings" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
         <EnableLUA>false</EnableLUA>
      </component>
      <component name="Security-Malware-Windows-Defender" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="
http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance ">
         <DisableAntiSpyware>true</DisableAntiSpyware>
      </component>
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-SystemRestore-Main" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
         <DisableSR>1</DisableSR>
      </component>
      <component name="Networking-MPSSVC-Svc" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
         <DomainProfile_EnableFirewall>false</DomainProfile_EnableFirewall>
         <PrivateProfile_EnableFirewall>true</PrivateProfile_EnableFirewall>
         <PublicProfile_EnableFirewall>true</PublicProfile_EnableFirewall>
      </component>
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS">
        <RunSynchronous>
          <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
            <Path>reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\FirstNetwork" /v Category /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f</Path>
            <Description>Setting Network Location</Description>
            <Order>1</Order>
          </RunSynchronousCommand>
        </RunSynchronous>
      </component>
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
         <fDenyTSConnections>false</fDenyTSConnections>
      </component>
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-IE-InternetExplorer" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
         <DisableAccelerators>true</DisableAccelerators>
         <DisableOOBAccelerators>true</DisableOOBAccelerators>
         <SuggestedSitesEnabled>false</SuggestedSitesEnabled>
         <DisableFirstRunWizard>true</DisableFirstRunWizard> 
         <DisableWelcomePage>true</DisableWelcomePage>
         <Home_Page>http://www.google.com</Home_Page>
         <SearchScopes>
            <Scope wcm:action="add">
               <ScopeDefault>true</ScopeDefault>
               <ScopeDisplayName>Google</ScopeDisplayName>
               <ScopeKey>SearchProvider1</ScopeKey>
               <ScopeUrl>http://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}</ScopeUrl>
            </Scope>
         </SearchScopes>
      </component>
      <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS">
        <TimeZone>Central Standard Time</TimeZone>
      </component>
   </settings>
</unattend>