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This work by Mehmet Bora Teoman is licensed under a Creative Commons Unattended Installation of Windows 7, imaging and deploying it via WDS -1 Attribution Noncommercial - Share Filed under: ms tip Tags: answer le, image, Key Management Services, KMS, sysprep, unattended Alike 3.0 Unported installation, wds, Windows 7, windows deployment services Mehmet Bora Teoman @ 21:12 License.

30/06/2010

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available operating The subject for this two part article is the creation of an unattended answer file for Windows 7 at Terms Of Use. system installation, creation of an image of a Windows 7 machine and deployment of the image via WDS by Hi everyone unattended installation method. First of all, I want to explain about what we need in such a scenario.
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We are going to finish the below steps throughout the article: 1234Creation of unattended answer file for Windows 7 The installation of a Windows 7 machine with all the necessary programs Installation of a WDS server Capturing of the Windows 7 machine with WDS

The hardware and software that we need to complete the above steps are as follows: 12345A technician computer (to create the answer file) Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7 (to install on technician computer) An installation computer (to install Windows 7 and necessary software) The installation media for Windows 7 and setup files for softwares A working WDS infrastructure

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Unattended Installation of Windows 7, imaging and...

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Figure 1: The necessary hardware and software Lets start with the steps that I mentioned in the first list. First of all, I have to install WAIk on the technician computer. This piece of software is used to create answer file for unattended installation. The computer can be a Windows 7, Vista or XP. The computer that I will use is a Windows XP SP3 one. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=696DD665-9F76-4177-A811-39C26D3B3B34& displaylang=en link is where we can download the le called KB3AIK_EN.iso. After I download it, I burn the le on a blank DVD with a DVD-Burner software and start the setup of WAIK. There are prerequisites to install WAIK on a Windows XP operating system but fortunately, they are coming inside of the DVD as well. These are .Net Framework and MSXML setups. I install them rst and then click on the Windows AIK Setup link. After a few screen, I nished the setup (Figure 2).

Figure 2: WAIK setup screen Now I can begin to create my new unattended answer le. To do this, I open the Windows AIK user interface (Start -> Programs -> Microsoft Windows AIK -> Windows System Image Manager). The screen is composed of 5 parts; Distribution Share and Windows Image on the left side, Answer File, Properties and Messages on the right side. To create the answer le, I have to show an install.wim le on the Windows Image part. I right click the Select a Windows image or catalog le line on this part and select Select Windows Image from the opening list, and then I select the install.wim le (\sources\install.wim) from Windows 7 installation DVD and press OK button. After this action, two folders (Components and Packages) appear under the Windows Image part. We will do all the job via the Components folder actually in this part. To open a new answer le template, I right click Create or open an answer le line under Answer File part and select New answer le. After all these, I have to see a scree similar to Figure 3.

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