Microsoft KB Archive/312580

= How to Suppress the Configure Your Server Wizard =

PSS ID Number: 312580

Article Last Modified on 12/19/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q312580



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256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry



SUMMARY
This article describes how to suppress the Configure Your Server Wizard.



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Administrators may find it useful to suppress the appearance of the Configure Your Server Wizard. By default, this wizard appears the first time an administrator logs on to a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based server. The wizard continues to appear each time a user logs on until the administrator either selects Cancel in the wizard, or uses the wizard to configure the server in some fashion, and unchecks the Run this wizard again after these changes are made check box. If you create the following registry value, the Configure Your Server Wizard will not run when a user logs on. Note that this setting is based on the user, not the computer. The profile for each user that you want to be suppressed must contain the following value. To add the value to suppress the Configure Your Server Wizard, the following registry value should be added to the appropriate user's registry file:

The preceding value appears in the registry as Default, with a Reg_Dword data type, and a value of 00000000. It is not possible to manually create the srvWiz key and then the value, because when a registry key is created in Windows Server 2003, a value of Default with a Reg_SZ data type is already created in the key. This value cannot be deleted. Because of this, the preceding key would need to be deployed through a script, custom policy, or programmatic method. Note that this is the value that is created by the Configure Your Server Wizard after you click the Cancel button. If you delete the preceding registry key, the Configure Your Server Wizard runs the next time that user logs on.

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