Not prompted to set Administrator password at logon after Sysprep

As far as I know, the following are facts regarding the Administrator password on Windows 2008 R2:
- By default the Administrator account is enabled and the password is blank, but you are forced to set a password at first logon after Windows installation
- Sysprep is supposed to set the Administrator password to blank, unless one is indicated in the unattend file.
On my 2008 R2 images I want to be prompted to set the Administrator password after the image is deployed (and after sysprep has been run on the source machine), but for some reason this is not happening.  Instead it just comes up with a logon screen
and expects the password that was used on the source machine.
I just want the same behavior as when 2008 R2 is installed from media, which is for the Administrator account to have a blank password, but where I am forced to set one at first boot.  I have tried setting the password to blank on the source machine
before running sysprep, but then it just automatically logs on the Administrator on the first boot, which I don't want.
What setting can I look for that may be causing this?  On a previous image which I created using the same unattend file, this worked as I wanted it to, thus the reason I believe it's a setting on my source machine.
Thanks.

Hi,
Thank you for the reply.
From the log, we can see your administrator password was not cleared successfully.
I had a test on my Windows Server 2008 R2 computer and it cleared my administrator password successfully. After the computer restarted, it prompted me to change
the password. And the following line appeared in the log file:
[shsetup] CleanupAdministratorPassword: previous account flags = 0x00000201
[shsetup] CleanupAdministratorPassword: password cleared
[shsetup] CleanupAdministratorPassword: setting account flags = 0x00800201
[shsetup] CleanupAdministratorPassword: password expired
Now I would like to know whether you use any unattend file together with sysprep. Did you put any .xml file under C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep or explicitly specify
an unattend file using the sysprep command?
Please remove any .xml file in C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep, double-click sysprep.exe in C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep, check the box before Generalize to sysprep your
system again.
What’s the result?
Tim Quan - MSFT

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