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Hi all, We have a working Windows XP SP3 image that contains a customized Office 2007 installation (predefined server, profile name, etc). Recently our corporate mail server got a new DNS name. Is there a way to change the predefined server address in the mounted WIM image? many thanks in advance! kind regards,

Thanks for moving my question to the correct forum; I'll try and see if can wrangle a sysprep answer file that fits my needs out of WSIM. I assume there's a way of deleting the xml file after setup? Bless Microsoft for supplying the admin with tools to fully customize the Windows installation and deployment, but I definitely preferred the simple unattended approach used in the XP/2003 family :-)

Our desktop support team use a basic but effective combination of imagex.exe and a winpe pxe boot image to deliver Windows XP SP3 to new computers. The process is as follows: * prepopulate computer account in Active Directory * PXE boot, choose image from menu * apply sysprepped wim image to computer (ComputerName is not provided in sysprep.inf) * have end user supply computer name in mini-setup * automatic domain join, reboot, gpo software installation and everything is hunky dory :-) I would like to use the exact same method for deploying Windows 7. The first question: is that even possible? It looks like providing a plain text password to join Windows 7 to the domain in the unattended/sysprep file is frowned upon. Does anyone have experience in this "basic" deployment or should I not bother and just use Windows AIK to help design, configure and deploy the Windows 7 images.

LS, I would like to create a (command or vbs) script that assigns Windows shortcut keys to the program links in Windows Start Menu (Ctrl+Shift+W for Word, Ctrl+Shift+D for our remote control software) so I can include this in the unattended setup of our computers. I've tried to find information on how to do this, but unfortunately I didn't find anything helpful so far. Does anyone here have experience in doing this? Many thanks in advance!