your computer name is managed by your organizations's system administrator

[Santosh dharamsale]

i sysprep the windows 7 image with some application and uploaded to WDS server when i started installation using VM Player after completing installation while configuring system details Pc name filed is disappear " your computer name is managed by your organizations's system administrator " getting this message. but when i installed same image using VM workstation i am able to keying PC name. what could be the problem. while sysprep my machine is joined to domain.

[ABS]

I searched through the registry for "computername" and came across this:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE

UnattendSetComputerName=1  Changing it to 0 made it come up and ask for the computername.