MDT 2012 Windows 7 Deployment Stops At User Account and Computer Name Setup Page

Question

I was given a sysprepped custom Windows 7 WIM image that was set up by a third party that didn't use MDT to create the WIM.
I created a task sequence to deploy it, but it never finishes.  After the OS installs and it reboots, it comes up to the white setup page asking for a user name and computer name that looks like this image:
Is there a setting in MDT that can change that behavior?

Answer 1

Are you joining the computer to a domain?
It sounds like MDT did not create the unattend.xml file itself (or is there an unattend file already in the image itself?)
MDT needs to be able to autologin with the local admin account
From MDT in your task sequence - OS info - Edit unattend.xml you can check if your unattended file is correct.
Check what's in there for:
- computer name in 4 Specialize area - Windows-Shell-Setup_neutral (it should be empty  if you want MDT to handle it).
- Also i think you need to have in the Specialize section, under Microsoft-Windows-Deployment_neutral - Run Synchronous an EnableAdmin insert
This will enable the local admin account
- Also check in phase 7 oobe System in Shell-Setup_neutral
There should be an autologon with a count of 999
Check if you have any Local Accounts there.
Finally read this:
When I am joining clients to a domain, can I avoid creating a local user
account on the computer?
Yes. To do this, create an image unattend file that adds a domain account to the Administrators group. In addition, you must delete the <LocalAccounts> section if it is present in your
unattend file (simply commenting it out will not work). An example file is below. Note that if domain join fails, Windows Deployment Services will not use the unattend file so you will be able to create a local account. For more information about creating
unattend files, see Automating Setup.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State">
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" processorArchitecture="amd64">
<UserAccounts>
<AdministratorPassword>
<Value>password</Value>
<PlainText>true</PlainText>
</AdministratorPassword>
<DomainAccounts>
<DomainAccountList wcm:action="add">
<DomainAccount wcm:action="add">
<Group>Administrators</Group>
<Name>DomainAdmin</Name>
</DomainAccount>
<Domain>DomainName</Domain>
</DomainAccountList>
</DomainAccounts>
</UserAccounts>
</component>
</settings>
</unattend>
I tried opening the unattend.xml from the MDT workbench, but it errors out saying it cannot be done because the captured image is x86.