Windows golden images UserPreferencesMask

[Andre Leblanc]

Building a windows image with packer and ansible.

I try to customize the border window without sucess...

- name: Apply WindowBorders property

  ansible.windows.win_regedit:

    hive: C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat

    path: HKCU:\Control Panel\Desktop

    name: "{{ item.name }}"

    data: "{{ item.data }}"

    type: "{{ item.type }}"

    state: present

  with_items:

    - name: UserPreferencesMask

      data: hex:9e,3e,03,80,12,00,00,00

      type: binary

Beside a login script or GPO how do you customize your golden images when it concern users settings. 

Thanks!

[Luis Mayorga]

Most likely u need to elevate

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On Nov 25, 2022, at 2:05 PM, Andre Leblanc <alebl...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Andre Leblanc]

>Most likely u need to elevate

Not sure I understand properly. My packer account, that built the image is already administrator. (Have full rights that I know...)

Thanks!

[Jordan Borean]

You are loading the default user hive but are still editing a path inside the current user. As per the last example in the win_regedit docs you need to use the 'HKLM:\ANSIBLE' path to edit the loaded hive https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/windows/win_regedit_module.html. So here it would be 'path: HKLM:\ANSIBLE\Control Panel\Desktop.