WDS help!

[ron]

I have tried searching the microsoft forums but there are 100's of pages to read through!

When creating an image when it comes to deploying the image the windows welcome setup comes up prompting for the licence key however when running sysprep and also the deploy management setup I run through the settings and input the licence key there, what am I missing. In sysprep I select the reseal.

Any ideas?

[glennda]

Aslong as the Key is in the sysprep.ini file select reseal and use mini setup, you can input everything, domain, username and password to join it to the domain etc

[Gibbo]

Don't forget to "fully automate the installation" as well.

[ron]

Yes I have done all of that but it still asks me to enter key and complete the welcome setup once I have installed the image on the machine, I must be missing a setting somewhere along the way or maybe it's something to do with the sysprep.ini file created?

[A5Ben]

Ron,

What i do is create a folder under the RemoteInstall share (Images\{groupname]\{imagename}\$OEM$\$1\sysprep and place a sysprep.inf file there.

WDS reads this file when deploying the image and automates the whole process.


Hope that helps!
Ben in SC

[ron]

@ A5Ben

Ok thanks a lot, I will give that a go.

[plexer]

what install media are you doing the initial install from?