Windows 7 Auto OS Selection

[Wake-Up-Jeff]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting my client to auto select Windows 7 Professional
to build from the WDS server.
It PXE boots fine, and partitions the disk as per my unattend xml file
(build using WSIM).
However, the user is prompted to select from the various Windows 7 flavours.
. .
Home basic, Home premium, Professional, Ultimate.
I tried disabling all except the Professional version in the WDS image
group.
The result was that the user was presented with Professional only, but the
build did not auto select it.
I've got the Image Group and Image Name specified in my unattend xml file,
but it seems to ignore it.
Any suggestions???

Here's an extract from my unattend xml file. . .

<WindowsDeploymentServices>
<ImageSelection>
<InstallImage>
<ImageGroup>ImageGroup1</ImageGroup>
<ImageName>Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL</ImageName>
</ImageSelection>
</WindowsDeploymentServices>

[D. Winkler]

Make sure the name of the image group and image name match EXACTLY with the
server. Also, there appears to be an error with your XML. Specifically, there
is no closing </InstallImage> tag.

<ImageSelection>
<InstallImage>
<ImageGroup>Desktops</ImageGroup>
<ImageName>Vista Enterprise SP2 x64 NEWSIG</ImageName>
</InstallImage>
<InstallTo>
<DiskID>0</DiskID>
<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
</InstallTo>
</ImageSelection>

"Wake-Up-Jeff" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting my client to auto select Windows 7 Professional
> to build from the WDS server.
> It PXE boots fine, and partitions the disk as per my unattend xml file
> (build using WSIM).
> However, the user is prompted to select from the various Windows 7 flavours.

> .. .

> Home basic, Home premium, Professional, Ultimate.
> I tried disabling all except the Professional version in the WDS image
> group.
> The result was that the user was presented with Professional only, but the
> build did not auto select it.
> I've got the Image Group and Image Name specified in my unattend xml file,
> but it seems to ignore it.
> Any suggestions???
>
> Here's an extract from my unattend xml file. . .
>
> <WindowsDeploymentServices>
> <ImageSelection>
> <InstallImage>
> <ImageGroup>ImageGroup1</ImageGroup>
> <ImageName>Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL</ImageName>
> </ImageSelection>
> </WindowsDeploymentServices>
>
>

> .
>

[Ron]

Another thing you can do if you only want to present one image is to use
imagex to /export a single image to another WIM file.

imagex /export install.wim 2 install1.wim

Will take the second image out of install.wim and put it into install1.wim.
Save the original wim file and rename install1.wim to install.wim. No more
user prompt.

You can use:

imagex /info install.wim

to find out the index of your target image.

-Ron-

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