Issue with Remote Desktop and Network Level Authentication (NLA) after deploying image

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

Microsoft NLA (network level authentication) was enabled on endpoint after deploying an image to it. This may affect Remote Desktop access in some environments.

Environment

Ghost Solution Suite 3.3.x

Cause

unknown

Resolution

Work around: run a Powershell script task on the endpoint after boot to production (after imaging) to disable NLA. 

(Get-WmiObject -class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices -ComputerName $server -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").SetUserAuthenticationRequired(0)