I am a developer, but as part of my development workflow I am regularly setting up new virtual machines for testing, etc. I've been trying to automate the build process for some time, but as I'm not a deployment specialist it's all a bit new to me. I recently discovered MDT, and it looks like it is the tool I should have found ages ago, but there's one aspect of my requirements that doesn't seem to get mentioned in any of the tutorials or scenarios I've seen so far.
When I set up a deployment image, I'd like to include in it a standard local user account ("Tester") that will be available on all the builds. I don't have a domain in my environment, so using a domain account isn't possible.
Is it possible to do this? None of the "New Computer" scenario descriptions talk about setting up accounts - account management seems to be in the "Replace" or "Refresh" scenarios, where the emphasis is on retaining existing accounts on the target computer, not adding accounts to the image. Is it as simple as pausing the image build and creating the account manually on the image?
I'm not sure how relevant it is, but my environment doesn't have anything like PXE boot, so I'll be expecting to ultimately create an offline install ISO image for the target computer deployment, and I'd like everything needed to be present in that ISO.
Thanks for any help.
Paul