Are "Corporate" WinXP installations always without partitin selection, config + serial key prompt?

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As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are installed "silently" without prompts
for installation partition, config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key

Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at installation time).
Administrator logins in always automatically.

Is that all true?

Adriano
 
Adriano said:
As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are
installed "silently" without prompts for installation partition,
config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key

Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at
installation time).
Administrator logins in always automatically.

Is that all true?
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First of all, Microsoft has never issued a "Corporate" version of
Windows XP.

If you Google the term, you will likely get hits for websites that offer
torrents with that name. You might very well wind up with an .iso of an
actual installation CD for a Volume-license version. Then again, since
you never know what you may wind up with when it comes to these
unauthorized downloads, you might wind up with something with malware on
it. And even if there's no malware, it might be an expired version that
will fail WGA.

FWIW, volume license copies of Windows XP do not require activation as
they are pre-activated.
 
Adriano Gennaro said:
As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are installed
"silently" without prompts
for installation partition, config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key

Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at
installation time).
Administrator logins in always automatically.

Is that all true?

Adriano
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Volume licensed Windows on a Domain Server network may be installed using a
cloned setup that self activates once the computer hooks up to the domain.
User accounts are set up on the domain server and depending on how that
account is set up a user may be able to go to any computer in the domain and
log on (roaming profile) or only be able to log onto a fixed machine.

See more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaming_user_profile and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372123.aspx
 
You still need to input a valid key. The rest is as you posted

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Adriano said:
As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are installed "silently" without prompts
for installation partition, config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key

Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at installation time).
Administrator logins in always automatically.

Is that all true?

Adriano
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All "corporate" versions of Windows are pirated copies. This is where
someone bought a volume license and then illegally sliced it up to sell
outside the original organization to which the volume license was sold.

This is not a pro-piracy newsgroup.
 
As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are installed "silently" without prompts
for installation partition, config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key

Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at installation time).
Administrator logins in always automatically.

Is that all true?

Adriano
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It seems to me that all the corporate and government environments I
programmed in were tailored to address their particular security and
resource concerns. But I never cared much about it. If their tweaks
prevented my doing something important to my programming assignment,
I reported the constraint to management and usually had the constraint
removed for my project.

HTH,
Richard
 
As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are installed
"silently" without prompts
for installation partition, config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key
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Very probably yes. Geek web sites also tell us how to configure
reinstallation this way.
Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at
installation time).
Administrator logins in always automatically.
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This would be unlikely (contrary to WinXP's fail-safe doctrine governing
User vs. Administrator privileges.) Administrators are expected to know
that the Ctl Alt Del password is always available at reboot.

Automatic logon is a user-settable option, most easily assigned via TweakUI.
 
No it is not

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As far as I heard all "Corporate" Versions of Windows XP are
installed "silently" without prompts for installation partition,
config (e.g.regional settings), and serial key

Furthermore no user logon account prompt is setup (at least at
installation time). Administrator logins in always automatically.

Is that all true?

Adriano
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Default, no. Unless you script the automated install process. Otherwise,
it's like loading an OEM copy of windows, but without doing the
activation nonsense. It's pre activated and will remain that way forever;
unless the key your using gets blacklisted...
 
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