[mdt] Which unattend.xml?

[mbrunt]

Something I've never really understood, when I create my image the last thing I do us run sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:x64unattend.xml

 

The x64unattend.xml is my own XML file that I include on the image. However, in MDT in the /DeploymentShare/Control/001 folder theres another unattend.xml file in there.

 

Which one is actually being used then?

 

Or are both being used?

 

Thanks!

[free780]

Its for the deployment of the os. So sysprep doesn't have one afaik. As the unattend.xml is applied to the image in depoyment. So your image is more flexible.

[mbrunt]

Huh? Sorry, I totally didn't understand that :s

[free780]

The unattend.xml is applied to the image when applied to a computer. You should use mdt to do the build and capture.

There is also the sysprep and capture ts. You can edit the unattend.xml for sysprep with that ts. The ts must be started from within windows.

Edited September 14, 2013 by free780

[DMcCoy]

The unattended option on the *server* (for x86, x64 etc)

This is used by the Windows PE phase to automate the image selection, login, format the drive etc

You can only have one of these specified in the gui, but if you prestage a machine you can have it use a different one (handy to make different machines automatically install different images each time).

 

The unattended option on the *image* is coped to the machine during the above deployment phase, and is used when the machine reboots, in the normal manner for an unattended sysprep file.

It just means you can change the image unattended file without having to recapture etc, you sysprep the base image without one.