Set 'Account Password Never Expires' in Sysprep

I am adding a local account in the oobeSystem pass in the Sysprep answer file (Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup > UserAccounts). That works fine but there is no option to set the account password to 'never expires'.

So, I would like to use a WMIC command to accomplish that task but I'm not sure where to place it in unattend.xml. The only place I can find to run the command is in the Specialize pass (Microsoft-Windows-Deployment > RunSyncronous) but during deployment the Specialize pass runs before the oobeSystem pass so that won't work.

In the oobeSystem pass > Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup there is a component called FirstLoginCommands but I am assuming those commands would run the first time ANY user logs in and that they will run once for each user that logs in. Is that correct? I need the WMIC command to run just once instead of once for each user.

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