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Creating a New User Without Using Logon Information Dialogs

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How to create a New User without using Logon Information Dialogs

Synopsis

This article describes how to create a new user on the target machine during installation without using the logon information dialogs to prompt for the new user's information. This procedure is designed to work with a Basic MSI project.

Discussion

  1. Go to the Dialogs view in the project.
  2. Add a new dialog. When the dialog wizard appears, select the Logon Information Panel and Associated Child Dialogs.
  3. Remove the logon dialogs from the UI by changing the behavior on the dialogs surrounding the LogonInformation dialog (the Next and Back PushButton behavior).
  4. Add the following properties in the Property Manager:
    IS_NET_API_LOGON_USERNAME: set the value to a valid machine name and username in the format of MachineName\UserName
    IS_NET_API_LOGON_PASSWORD: set the value of this property to the password that will be used for this user
    IS_NET_API_LOGON_GROUP: set this to a valid user group that will be present on the target machine to create the user as part of that group
  5. Build the project.

Additional Information

This procedure adds the custom actions that will create the user when the logon information dialogs are added to the project. Setting the properties allows the custom action that runs in the install execute sequence to create the new user on the target machine without requiring the logon dialogs to prompt for the information at runtime.

More information on the logon dialogs can be found in the help library topic Adding the Ability to Create or Set an Existing User Account.
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Creating a New User Without Using Logon Information Dialogs