Windows Deployment Services, WAIK & Windows 7- Part 3/4. We are back again and in today’s article we will continue our efforts in automating our Windows 7 deployment via Windows Deployment Services utilising the WAIK tool and the creation of our XML Answer files. Today we continue our efforts in utilising the Windows System Image Manager (WSIM) to create our Image. Unattend. xml which will be specifically designed to automate the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) of our Windows 7 Enterprise install. In our last article I introduced WSIM and the steps required to create an answer file. Help. Desk. Group =Administrators. Name = Help. Desk. System. Microsoft- Windows- Shell- Setup\User. Accounts\Domain. Account. List\Local. Accounts\Local. Account\Password. Value = ********************In summary, the oobe. System settings above (Windows Out of Box Experience) automates the initial configuration tasks that end users normally encounter when installing Windows 7 or Windows Vista. The above settings are the required minimum settings to fully automate the Windows 7 Enterprise “install” image, however you can add other components such as setting a default theme (Microsoft- Windows- Shell- Setup\Themes). The complete Unattended Windows Setup Reference can be found in the WAIK help area and on the Microsoft Tech. Net Site here. Once you have completed adding any further settings to your Image. Unattend. xml file you will need to validate your settings and then save the file as “Image. Unattend. xml”. We will now navigate to your WDS server and launch the Windows Deployment Services Management Console. If you have multiple Install Images they will also be listed here. Click Next. That’s it! Make your own Multilanguage installation DVD for Windows Vista or Windows 7. Before reinstalling Windows you can use Windows Easy Transfer for your data and settings. Requirements: # Windows 7 Installation DVD/ISO # vLite software. Note that you need to install Windows Automated Installation Kit (free) to run vLite software. We are back again and in today’s article we will continue our efforts in automating our Windows 7 deployment via Windows Deployment Services utilising the WAIK tool.The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vista Published: October 22, 2009. Updated: October 22, 2009. Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. Resolving Sysprep problems with App-X packages (Part 1) This is the first of two articles explaining how to fix systems that won't Sysprep if Windows Native/App-X. JFX has made a nice tools that automatically extracts imagex, bcdboot and various others useful files from the Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK.
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