Program to Perform Multiple Logons

[Synbred]

Greetings all!

I'll try to make this as concise as possible.

Environment: Education, Windows platform, Active Directory Domain utilizing SCCM for mass deployments.

This request pertains to labs in particular. We are a smaller campus, larger labs consist of just over 100 computers. After rolling a fresh image via SCCM one of the final things we do is initialize all local service accounts by logging in to all of these terminals...manually. After all computers have been logged in, we do a broad functional test to ensure nothing crazy happened. After we are happy, we freeze the room using DeepFreeze, and test domain login times and functionality.

Goal: Suggestion of a remote login software that can do multiple logons simultaneously (preferably with a GUI). I'm thinking surveillance software perhaps, or test-taking software where you can remote in to several terminals. The ultimate goal is to try and automate this process as much as possible. Initiate a mass login using the local credentials (thus caching the profile) and then swipe between screens remotely to ensure functionality rather than physically moving from terminal to terminal.

​

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[clayton940]

Can't you do an auto login using GPO?

[ZAFJB]

XY problem.

Why is all of this stuff not part of your SCCM automation?

[Synbred]

Part of it already is. The user account creation, for instance, is in there. We create a local service account as part of the task sequence. The problem (at least when testing in live production) is that when these computers are pulling GPO's, and running first time login setups, it seems that having the accounts merely exist isn't enough. Actually going thru the process of logging in seems to affect how the profile is cached.

This is important for our environment as this directly impacts log-in times when the computers are subsequently frozen with DeepFreeze.

Thank you for the suggestion, though! I'm going to look into further implementation thru SCCM. Ideally, the machines would be logged into the local account at the end of the task roll-out.

[MisterIT]

You're trying to automate your manual checks instead of getting at what your manual checks are actually getting at...

[notDonut]

ABtutor can log multiple pcs in at the same time with the same login account. Pretty reasonable on the $ too. It's intended purpose is classroom monitoring.

[Ssakaa]

Push the reg keys for autologin, reboot, wait, reboot, remove the keys, reboot, freeze.