Imaging problem! Need help!

[omarsden]

Hi EduGeek!

 

So, I'm on a Windows 2012 R2 Standard server and I'm made an image of Windows 7, and now is the time to create the Unattended.xml.

It works fine, I can start the imaging process, but I need to manually do certain things, when I shouldn't have to.

 

Every time I network boot to reimage the test computer, it asks me to select a keyboard.

I've looked online everywhere and there is no solution. Even filling in every field within Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE as en-US.

 

I want it to be that I don't have to make the keyboard United Kingdom, just to automatically go through it all.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

[ITJS2015]

Have you noticed when you have done your xml file that you have selected either x86 or x64 for your customised unnatend file.

 

Also have you placed your file in x86 or x64 underneath the client tab on your wds settings

[omarsden]

It's x64,

 

and yeah every slot which has 64 in it has the xml file in it

[ITJS2015]

Go to your wds settings , underneath the client tab which should be an enable unattended installation. There is a box which says x64 architecture, make sure that the path is correct for it to pickup your file

[3s-gtech]

Make sure you name it unattend.xml, unattended.xml won't work.

[omarsden]

I have done that already, still nothing.

 

It skips the language part, but goes straight to choosing a keyboard

[BKGarry]

I must admit, I stopped using WDS a while ago.

 

I use MDT, but I deploy a classic fat image, but have it deploy a couple of things post image. WDS just allows the PXE boot. I have never had to do the keyboard layout with MDT but I did have to put some tweaks in so that we just put in the PC name and off it goes.

[Dos_Box]

Moving to O/S Deployment forum.

[ITJS2015]

I have a window 7 unattend.xml file which has x86_Microsoft-windows-international-core-winpe_neutral with the setting set. Have a look at the windows 7 x64 but under the winPE section you fine what I have on this message.

[omarsden]

I can't see anything that I've not already tried like UI language, etc.

[BKGarry]

Thank you @Dos_Box :-)

 

Also I have just looked at my MDT Default settings, I had to put in the following to make it auto go through the language stuff, but I am unsure how you would translate these into you Unattend.xml

 

SkipLocaleSelection=YES
KayboardLocale=0809:00000809
UserLocale=en-GB
UILanguage=en-GB
SkipTimeZone=YES
TimeZoneName=GMT Standard Time

 

I remember the keyboard locale being a pig to find to get it to work, as it needed that number in there and not en-GB

[BKGarry]

Maybe this will work for you

 

0809:00000809
en-GB 
en-GB 
en-GB

[LeMarchand]

            en-GB
           en-GB
           en-GB
           en-GB
           en-GB

 

This seems to work here.

[omarsden]

So I found out the problem!

 

I set up credentials wrong and mis-typed the password.

 

I'm an idiot.

 

Thanks for your help anyway!

[BKGarry]

@oMaRden

 

It is such an easy mistake to make, and since that is not the area that seems to be affected, you wouldn't have even of thought of looking at it.

 

Great to hear that it is working for you now.

 

I would suggest you look at MDT in the future. It adds some extra tools, is really easy to setup and capture with, and most important of the lot, it is free!

[DavetheITguy]

Use MDT, my OS image deploys, builds the computer and joins to the network in 4 minutes. I can re-image a room of 30 computers in 10 minutes and then use SCCM 2012 to deploy software.

 

MDT simplifies everything.

Edited October 27, 2016 by DavetheITguy