[Tripredacus]

ricktendo, on 11 April 2013 - 11:24 PM, said:

oobe.xml can set usertile, but it does not work if your install is 100% unattended

Yeah it has something to do with needing to show one of the pages in OOBE, you need to omit either the AccountName or ComputerName (I forget which). I usually get around this by deploying an image to Audit Mode. Creating a user account, assigning a picture to it, then sysprep with an answer file. I obviously create an account with that answer file, but I set the pre-created account as the one that logs in automatically.

[maxXPsoft]

ricktendo, on 11 April 2013 - 11:24 PM, said:

oobe.xml can set usertile, but it does not work if your install is 100% unattended

thanks Rick but yes I shoot for 100% and don't want to go into Audit either. That makes me look for other ways to accomplish things MS tries very hard to keep us from doing for no reason. We are merely customizing our OS the way we like.

[brettule]

After I sysprep with my unattend.xml the system reboots then fails to build properly claiming "a component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist."

Can anyone tell me what is causing this? My unattend.xml is attached.

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[myselfidem]

Look at line 177 inside your unattend.xml file, a part is missing.

Change to:
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64"...

<RegisteredOwner>Sapere</RegisteredOwner>

[maxXPsoft]

brettule
don't have much in Audit passes either if you are actually doing Audit Mode
Look at Auditsystem and Audituser example here.
http://www.msfn.org/...782#entry892782

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 02 May 2013 - 10:37 AM

[brettule]

myselfidem, on 02 May 2013 - 03:52 AM, said:

Look at line 177 inside your unattend.xml file, a part is missing.

Change to:
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64"...

<RegisteredOwner>Sapere</RegisteredOwner>

Nope, that didn't fix it.

The exact error is:
Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\windows\panther\unattend.xml] for pass [specialize]. A component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist.

I guess that means something is broken in the <settings pass="specialize"> ????

This post has been edited by brettule: 02 May 2013 - 04:46 PM

[brettule]

maxXPsoft, on 02 May 2013 - 10:35 AM, said:

brettule
don't have much in Audit passes either if you are actually doing Audit Mode
Look at Auditsystem and Audituser example here.
http://www.msfn.org/...782#entry892782

I took a look at the examples and noticed my specialize has a lot of x86 entries in it when really it's only used on 64bit machines now. I copied the 64bit example you linked into my xml and then transposed my various 64bit settings only and added a few others. Although I don't know which line exactly was causing me the issue doing this has solved the error.

Cheers.

[myselfidem]

brettule, on 02 May 2013 - 04:29 PM, said:

myselfidem, on 02 May 2013 - 03:52 AM, said:

Look at line 177 inside your unattend.xml file, a part is missing.

Change to:
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64"...

<RegisteredOwner>Sapere</RegisteredOwner>

Nope, that didn't fix it.

The exact error is:
Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file [C:\windows\panther\unattend.xml] for pass [specialize]. A component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist.

I guess that means something is broken in the <settings pass="specialize"> ????

Yes, I give you a correct fix...Look carrefully the pass: <settings pass="specialize">

You can also remove the last line, because you've made an AIO and the image names aren't the same!

<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:d:/sources/install.wim#Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />

[gotenks98]

Anyone figure out how to do the audit mode install from dvd/usb from windows 8? I been struggling with this for a few months now and nothing I have found online works.

[maxXPsoft]

gotenks98, on 07 May 2013 - 04:12 PM, said:

Anyone figure out how to do the audit mode install from dvd/usb from windows 8? I been struggling with this for a few months now and nothing I have found online works.

I have not even tried myself but all the data is still there in Win 8 unattend.chm so you would think it should.