Setting up the Visio web drawings was the easy part, linking them back to SCOM and setting various shades of green, amber and red for alerts etc. One thing that struck me though was the absence of TweakUI for the Windows 7 PC that would drive the dashboard screens, remember with the Microsoft TweakUI PowerToy you could very easily setup an auto logon account (obviously you need to ensure that the account is very restricted).
SysInternals offer their autologin utility (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963905.aspx) but I wanted to have control over a number of machines across our network and the user / password combination for them.
Having prepared a new GPO which effectively turned the user accounts setup for the dashboard PC's into kiosks I stripped the additional registry keys that the autologin utility creates and added them into the group policy preferences/registry:
Keys required:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultDomainName
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultPassword
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName
With the new GPO supplied registry entries I can now specify targets for the DefaultPassword and DefaultUserName registry entries allowing me to control which user logs into which dashboard machine.
Another minor task made easier..
