Workstation User’s Manual
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Placeholder Values to Use in Instance Customization
Useplacehol dervaluestoconstructmachine‐specificnamesinsidetheguestoperating
systemduringtheMini‐Setupprocess.
Followingaretheavailableplaceholders:
%logon_user%or%logon_user(n)% –Theuserloggedintothehostmachineat
thetimetheMicrosoftMini‐Setupprocessbegins.
Youcanuse%logon_user(n)%,where<n>isthemaximumnumberofcharacters
obtainedfromtheactuallogged‐inuserwhenthenameisresolved.Use<n>ifyou
theusernam
emustberesolvedtonomorethanacertainnumberofcharacters.
Forexample,ifyouspecifythat3randomcharactersaretobeaddedtotheactual
usernameandyouwanttolimittheresolvednameto15characters,set<n>to12.
YourentryintheNamefi
eldintheSystemOptionspanelis
%logon_user(12)%%random_alpha_digit(3)%.
Including(n)intheplaceholderisoptional.Ifyouuseonly%logon_user% orif
youset<n>tozero(0),theplaceholderresolvestothefulllogged‐inusername.
%host_name% or %host_name(n)% –Thenameofthehostcomputer(usually
usedwithsomeadditionalrandomnumberorname).
Youcanuse%host_name(n)%,where<n>isthemaximumnumberofcharacters
obtainedfromtheactualcomputerhostnamewhenthenameisresolved.Use<n>
ifthehostnamemustberesolvedtonotmo
rethanacertainnumberofcharacters.
Forexample,ifyouspecifythat3randomcharactersaretobeaddedtotheactual
hostnameandyouwanttolimittheresolvednameto15characters,set<n>to12.
YourentryintheComputerNamefieldintheSy
stemOptionspanelis
%host_name(12)%%random_alpha_digit(3)%.
Including(n)intheplaceholderisoptional.Ifyouuseonly%host_name%,orif
youset<n>tozero(thatis,theplaceholderresolvestothefullhostname.
%random_alpha_digit(n)%–Arandomlygeneratedstringoflettersand
numbers,where<n>isthenumberofcharacters.Youmustspecify<n>.
%random_alpha(n)%–Arandomlygeneratedstringofletters,where<n>isthe
numberofcharacters.Youmustspecify<n>.
%random_digit(n)%–Arandomlygeneratedstringofnumericcharacters,where
<n>isthenumberofcharacters.Youmustspecify<n>.
ForWindowsVistaandWindows7guests,ifthecomputernameismorethan15
characters,theMini‐Setupprocessfailsontheusermachine.
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