linkazoid Posted July 7, 2015 Posted July 7, 2015 Hi, We have been creating new images, previously we've bodged the profile creation by copying the profile to the default user. I'm attempting to use the correct Audit Mode to do the new images properly. I have gathered the image but upon deployment some of the tasks I would have expected to happen have not applied. Registered Organisation and Owner isn't filled in. I have command prompt and Run on my start menu even though CopyProfile is set. When imaging a blank SSD or HDD the image fails after selecting the partition and you need to start the WDS selection again but this time it works as the partitions are created. I would love to setup SCCM but that is out of the question as I need a working solution before the holidays. Starting from scratch on something new isn't ideal. I know that my xml files must be wrong as the data is pretty much duplicated. Do I need to specify a unattend file in the sysprep stage if i'm going to use WDS? Any help to get this solved and I will be eternally grateful. I installed my apps using Audit mode and configured my apps and start menu. The image was syspreped with the following command. sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot /unattend:unattend.xml The unattend xml was copied to C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep en-us en-us en-us en-us en-us en-us true Authorised User School Name true true true true - REMOVED - * mydomain.com domain admin password domain admin mydomain.com 0809:00000809 en-GB en-US en-GB true true Work 1 - Removed - false Administrator Administrators Administrator - REMOVED - false GMT Standard Time 1 false cmd /q /c del /Q /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml Delete XML answer file 2 cmd /q /c del /Q /F c:\windows\panther\unattend.xml false Delete XML answer file false 3 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE" Rearm Office false 4 Activate Office cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act This is imported into WDS after gathering and the following xml is attached to the properties for unattended installations. ImageUnattend.xml en-us en-us en-us en-us en-us en-us true Authorised User School name true true true true REMOVED * mydomain.com REMOVED domain admin mydomain.com 0809:00000809 en-GB en-US en-GB true true Work 1 - REMOVED false Administrator Administrators Administrator - Removed - false GMT Standard Time 1 false cmd /q /c del /Q /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml Delete XML answer file 2 cmd /q /c del /Q /F c:\windows\panther\unattend.xml false Delete XML answer file false 3 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\OSPPREARM.EXE" Rearm Office false 4 Activate Office cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act Thanks, Michael
linkazoid Posted July 8, 2015 Author Posted July 8, 2015 Is anyone willing to send me their unattend.xml and ImageUnattend.xml via PM or email. Really need to get this sorted and working correctly today.
SHimmer45 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 if you load the MDT without using WDS does it work. if its failing to find the partition to image to i would check your task sequence closely as it might be that the disk setup isnt quite right. for your default profile you need to specify the copyprofile option which i cant see in your unattend. (i set this to be applied when the image is applied back to the machine) how i have done MDT&WDS is to create your MDT task sequence and unattend and just use WDS to push the MDT boot file to the client. i dont use WDS for anything other than that. So you should have one "unattend.xml" file.
linkazoid Posted July 8, 2015 Author Posted July 8, 2015 Thanks for your help. We don't use MDT either, only WDS.
SHimmer45 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 ahh i only use WDS to start the image process off so im possibly not going to be much use to you
linkazoid Posted July 9, 2015 Author Posted July 9, 2015 No worries, thanks for you help anyway @SHimmer45 Can anyone clarify if I need to use the unattend.xml with sysprep if i'm later using the ImageUnattend.xml with WDS Thanks, Michael
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