agarabaghi

do i need to point the sysprep image to the install images folder in WDS or will the litetouch.wim take care of it?

where do i find the boot.wim file? under the deploymentshare folder / boot folder i only see litetouch.wim files...

OK, I have a captured image for a T420s which ive sysprep for deployment. Ive added that as the OS in MDT and select custom wim file. Im am now updating the deployment share, and im assuming it will make the boot.wim file for me to load into WDS... Do I need to load the image.wim in WDS also, or will the boot.wim point it to MDT and MDT will take over from there?

ahh, ive seen the boot.wim, so i load that up in WDS boot images folder im guessing...

Ive used MDT to create the os / driver / software isntalls. but we have never had wds setup to pxe boot. I like that idea of creating my deployment shares for each type of machine ... once i have wds setup to pxe boot and have created the windows pe unattend.xml file, how do you get the MDT to work over the network?

I was reading that 4 part guide in the sticky, and was wondering at what point to you include the necessary software for the machines? Do you guys push software through AD, could i make an image, sysprep it with sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown , then capture the .wim file using imagex and save it on the WDS deployment server?

So I have no clue but after deploying the image, and then rebooting, it goes through install devices, and then gives me an error saying that the it could not phrase the unattend.xml file in [specialize] > [windows setup shell] section of the unattended file. Im using MySysPrep 8 1 net user administrator /active:yes true true false Eastern Standard Time %Computer Name% en-us en-us en-us en-us cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk 22PJM-YMD23-PC4TW-348D8-D6GDY 1 false cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato 2 false 3 false c:\windows\system32\cscript C:\"Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" /act true Work 1 cwBhAG0AbQBpAGMAaAAyADAAMQAxAEEAZABtAGkAbgBpAHMAdAByAGEAdABvAHIAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA== false cwBhAG0AbQBpAGMAaAAyADAAMQAxAFAAYQBzAHMAdwBvAHIAZAA= false Helpdesk Helpdesk Administrators Helpdesk Rollins College Information Technology why! this is becoming very frustrating.

you can't set it to 0. I am trying now with 1, and enabled: false.

im using WIndows System Image Manger in the WAIK tool kit. The original XML didn't have any autologin.

you mean setting 0 would not allow any autologin? I have no use for any auto login

I have a script to auto join the domain ROllins.edu when the machine 1st logs in. Im wondering if there is a local setting somewhere that is forcing the machine to login as Helpdesk on the domain?

I have the lab machine that this unattend.xml file is for in audit mode, and i run the command mysysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:unattend.xml then i captrue the image using imagex to my server, and then deploy the image using imagex on the lab machine. It runs through the mysysprep and then auto logs into the help desk account...

My sysprep file is working great. Does everything I need it to do, but it logs in automatically to a local account (HelpDesk), and not to the login screen for the domain. Ive removed the autologin section from the xml and it still does it. When i reboot it logs directly into the account. If i activate net user administrator, and remove the local account maybe that will work? I still want a way to locally log in as an admin. Here is the xml: 8 1 net user administrator /active:no true %Computer Name% true false Eastern Standard Time en-us en-us en-us en-us cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx 1 false 2 cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato false 3 c:\windows\system32\cscript C:\"Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OSPP.VBS" false true Work 1 cwBhAG0AbQBpAGMAaAAyADAAMQAxAEEAZABtAGkAbgBpAHMAdAByAGEAdABvAHIAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA== false cwBhAG0AbQBpAGMAaAAyADAAMQAxAFAAYQBzAHMAdwBvAHIAZAA= false Local Administrator HelpDesk Administrators HelpDesk Rollins College CSS Lab

So i am having issues with the licensing of a piece of software. It works great with the local accounts, but once we add the machine to the domain and a domain user logs in the licensing disappears. I spoke with the tech support people from the software company, and they said I could create a symbolic link. Has anyone used this? The license file exists in the C:\AppData\Help Desk\Roaming\SAWTooth, SSI folder. Is there a way to then point c:\AppData\DOMAINUSERNAME\Roaming\SAWTOOTH SSI to the local profiles folder? I though about including a script to copy the folder over on boot up, but that seems like a bit too much no? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

haha thanks guys!

Is there somewhere on the machine i can tell it to not remember the last domain user to long in, and to remove the alt ctrl del window. I want the labs to launch to a point where it's just a blank user name and a blank password field.

i booted into windows pe, browsed to the sysprep folder and delete the unattend.xml file. Replaced it with what i think might be a fixed one... but it still saying the system has reboot unexpectedly. Any way to get back into audit mode?

also, there error starts a reboot loop as the machine can not proceed. Is there a way to get back into audit mode?

So im using mysysprep x86 and was trying to prompt for computer name... I got it to pop up using %Please enter Computer Name% but it then gives me an error say something in the [specialize] pass failed, using Setup Shell component... this is where the %...% field is. Could that be messing up my file? Ive had good luck with %SerialNo%

Ive read through a bunch of the threads, and at one point i had the vbs script someone create to run on 1st boot up working, but it was not consistent. Basically I want the machine to boot up on the domain, while showing a blank login screen (blank user name field to be filled in, and blank password field)... Is this something I can achieve via unattend.xml ? These are lab machines for all users to use, so it should not retain data as to who log in last, the username should always be blank when it boots up. Suggestions?

I wish i knew more about GPO. I have no access to our AD server but if I could ask the admin something specific he might be able to help. So in theory I could group all these lab machines right? and then push things to them by GPO?

So we have a screen saver setup on out lap machines on our sharepoint server. It's basically just a folder with images stored and we point the windows slide show to it. Is there a way to include this in the unattend.xml file. I know i see the option for screen savers but it says only default windows screen savers work.

There must be something wrong with these images, because I cant get Dreamweaver CS5.5 to show up in the wmic product list Every other adobe app shows up. When i run a 3rd party uninstall program, i can locate the UUID of the install, but any attempt to modify / repair / uninstall says "This option is only for install packages". Yet when I got to add/remove programs it can be uninstall that way. Frustrating!

REG DELETE seems to have worked, but not for the directory with a space in it. I tired putting it in quotes but still wont delete.

also that did not work, and neither did: REGEDIT4[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS5.5] REGEDIT4[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Dreamweaver]