jtlittl

I was wondering if any has had similar issues and if they figured it out thanks I can build a unattended file with the windows system image manager 1 for the architecture and one for the image you associated the unattended file to. K everything works great lets say you make a small change and in the drivers path missed typed the server name, you edit (even using system image manager) save the file and kick off your install to see if it works and for some reason it kills the whole thing it is like WDS isn't even reading the .xml files anymore. Am i missing something because it is driving me nuts i have to redo the whole file if i need to make one small change? And if anyone could point me to a good document or guide on using windows 7 with 2008 r2 I would appreciate it i have built it off what I have read in the AIK and technet. I wouldn't mind reading a guide from one of these deployment specialist out there that should be designing this for MS.

I was wondering how you could add vbscripts into the image and have them kick off after the install or towards the end of the install. Or even make a section in your program to add files to the image that create the $OEM$ directory to add custom scripts or files. I would like to create a dir c:\install\tools with bginfo in there, and c:\install\scripts with some vb scripts that can run during or after install. Thanks for the tool.

Anyone figured out or have information on how to use the Naming Policy and Client Account Location in the Directory Services Tab of WDS for Vista? Works great for my XP installs but wont do crap with Vista or Win7. Is this a old legacy feature that has not been removed that was only designed for XP? I have a 08 server running in native mode and it has this tab and options as well so I figured they had to make it work with .wim installations but I can not figure it out or find anything on it. Thanks for any info.

I am running windows server 2k3 I have old unattended files i use for windows XP (I don't use xp imgages fresh install) so I have the x86 boot option set to startrom.n12. we want to upgrade from xp to win7 using WDS but we need to be able to still XP if needed or on older equipment. Is there a way to add windows 7 to the startrom.n12 boot options? Or what are other doing that want to keep XP installs running on RIS and use WDS for Win 7? Thanks for any input.