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Unattended Session Naming
amacbeth
#1 Posted : Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:44:05 AM
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Joined: 2/9/2011
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I'm trying to come up with a good naming convention for the Unattended Session Installer.

My company generally uses service tag numbers for computer names. I feel like this will create a lot of confusion for the unattended sessions list as it will be hard to discern whose computer it might be by just looking at the list. I was hoping to be able to use %computername% - %username% in order to create a single installer that we could use on multiple systems. This doesn't work tho, since the installer runs as system.

Is there some other way that this could be accomplished?
wiglaf
#2 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:27:25 AM
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Joined: 2/5/2011
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Location: CA
We use:

%USERDOMAIN% - %COMPUTERNAME%

It will display DOMAIN - COMPUTERNAME
amacbeth
#3 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:27:48 PM
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That would work in some cases, but since many of the organizations that we manage are all on the same domain it still isn't the best choice.

Having a %username% option would be perfect, but as I said, this doesn't work since the install is run as system.
Jake Morgan
#4 Posted : Friday, February 11, 2011 4:50:46 AM
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It's going to be a problem regardless, because often ScreenConnect connects even before a user logs on. The labels are only resolved at connection time. And it doesn't reconnect at deterministic times. So I understand the desire, but there are several things in the way of the %USERNAME% working. We'll continue looking at this feature to try to figure out the best solutions.

Some people have defined their own environment variables through scripts that provide a little more control.
Jake Morgan
#5 Posted : Friday, March 25, 2011 8:35:02 PM
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%USERNAME% now works in the latest prerelease due to the guest client now running under the logged on user when possible.
amacbeth
#6 Posted : Friday, March 25, 2011 8:50:16 PM
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That is super awesome news! Thanks for the update; can't wait to try it out!
LaSepp
#7 Posted : Monday, January 16, 2012 11:05:56 AM
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Joined: 7/22/2011
Posts: 13
Location: Regensburg
Hi all,

Is there a session variable that always (even in Service mode at the logon screen) resolves to the Domain to which the PC is joined?

If not would it be possible to create such a variable?
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