If you are deploying Windows using MDT 2010 with Lite Touch, the user at the target computer can press F8 during the Windows PE portion of the deployment and break into a command prompt window. You can disable F8 functionality in Windows PE however by doing the following: open the unattend_pe_x86.xml and unattend_pe_x64.xml files using Notepad and replace “/Bootstrap” with “/BootstrapNoSF8”. These XML files are found in the templates folder of your deployment share.
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