[quote=“Knight, post: 17910, member: 17014”]I’m having issues following along the tutorial, things are all appearing different then the screenshots included on the original tutorial.[/quote]

Alright… I feel like an idiot. I re-read the tutorial, about 50 times, and finally realized I was using the “Windows System Image Manager” incorrectly to make my auto answer file, unattend.xml. I was incorrectly going to the top and clicking on “insert > add synchronous command”, then cutting and pasting the name of the component into the program. This isn’t the right way… The right way is in the bottom left, under “Windows Image”, expand the “Components” folder, then drag and drop the items listed in the tutorial over to the right middle of the program, under the “Answer File” section.

[quote=“andyroo54, post: 17918, member: 267”]If you follow my guide, it does not activate the license key, it is a dummy key (legitimate). Once the computer is imaged etc, we manually enter our volume license key. So the same process will work for you. I did consider a license server for our VLK but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. Plus if we have an OEM desktop/laptop then we enter the windows license it comes with to save activations on our VLK.[/quote]
I did seem to recall reading that somewhere, I suspect in your tutorial.

[quote=“andyroo54, post: 17915, member: 267”]I find the SAD2 drivers tool works great for us, but it’s good you found a way that works for your own setup. The main point of this was deploying windows 7, the drivers are just a bonus really.

That would explain why the screen shots I took don’t look the same for you. Every version of windows 7 has diff options for configuring the XML file. For example the XML file I created for windows 7 Sp1 x64 is different to the one I created for windows 7 Sp1 x86, and so it will be different again to yours because you aren’t using SP1 even.

Here is another guide:

[url]http://www.mockbox.net/windows-7/149-windows-7-autounattend-example.html[/url]

Remember my guide will work if you are following it exactly, since you aren’t using the same DVD then I’m afraid you will need to figure out the unattend xml, you will need to read guides, there is now even more info out there compared to back when I wrote this guide.[/quote]
I appreciate the suggestions. At this point I’m more then willing to slipstream in sp1 just so I can use your unattended.xml. I’m also trying to do Professional, at this point anyway, just to get things going, once I’ve got it going, I can start doing different images.
[quote=“drjam, post: 17914, member: 16842”]I run a PC business…this will be useful for our pc builds.[/quote]
This is the exact same reason I’m wanting to do this also, however I’m more repair, then building a new machine. So I’ll have to figure out the best way to allow me to manually enter legit license codes, etc. I haven’t even gotten to the SAD2 part yet, lol.

[quote=“andyroo54, post: 17911, member: 267”]What is appearing differently? Are you using windows 7 pro SP1? Or a different DVD?[/quote]
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Things aren’t nested the same way, and I can’t seem to insert anything into “3 generalize”.

I’m using Windows 7 Pro x86, Not SP1.

ISO MD5Sum is: D8F675AAEB48057452666B0CD686D7F5

Btw, thanks for the awesome tutorial.

Knight.

[quote=“andyroo54, post: 4019, member: 267”]Are you sure you have copied the guide correctly? Have you run sysprep correctly? I’d suggest to strongly re read the instructions and try again with your xml file. Use snapshots, which will reduce your time. I know my guide is long and in some cases can be difficult to interpret due to language differences, but you will find that everyone does this differently so you may come across diff problems. I will try to upload my unattend xml tomorrow for you to try…[/quote]

Were you ever able to upload your unattend.xml? I’m having issues following along the tutorial, things are all appearing different then the screenshots included on the original tutorial.

Thanks,
Knight.