I'm in charge of a small nonprofit's network - we have 10 computers on a domain, all Windows 8 Pro, with a Win 2012 SB server. My problem is that each computer has many users, and the first time each user logs on, Windows goes through the "Hi" introduction screens (presumably as it sets up the user's desktop).
I'm testing 8.1, and I noticed that it's requiring you to sit through that process AGAIN when someone logs in to the upgraded 8.1 machine for the first time. I plan to upgrade the rest of the workstations and I REALLY don't want to go to each machine and log in 25 times on each, waiting for the 2-5 minute "Hi" sequence each time for each user, but the boss doesn't want users to have to deal with this when they log in. Isn't there some way I can write a batch file or something that can simply log in and then log out as each user, sequentially, just to go through the sequence/prep the desktop/whatever it is windows does?
It's such a simple task, and yet it'll take me so damn long if I can't figure out a way to automate it (I've done it before and it takes all day, though we had fewer users back then).
Apologies in advance if this has been covered elsewhere, but every search yields nothing but stuff on logon scripts (which are useful but don't have anything to do with this situation, as far as I can tell.
