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As useful as it may be for some administrators, I don’t want the Configure Your Server Wizard to appear each time I log on to one of my servers. Microsoft knowledge base article 289080<\/a> details a quick registry change to prevent the wizard from starting automatically when new users log on to the computer. Of course, it is also possible to select the checkbox not to display the page at logon, but this registry key is useful for setting via a group policy, or as part of an unattended build process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As useful as it may be for some administrators, I don’t want the Configure Your Server Wizard to appear each time I log on to one of my servers. Microsoft knowledge base article 289080 details a quick registry change to prevent the wizard from starting automatically when new users log on to the computer. 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