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I see what you mean now. Nothing illegal going on here (if that's what you're getting at). I have here 15 custom built PC's and 15 OEM boxes of Windows 7. They all have a different key and need online activation. Does that clear that part up? If I say auto-activation is not needed I mean that I will do that later on manually... Online activation is indeed needed whatsoever.

Hmm, let me rephrase. I have a PC with MAC address x1 that needs to have a standard Windows 7 install without user interaction. During the installation the 'procedure' should match MAC address x1 to PC-name y1 and OEM key z1 which it will find in a list (database, file, ...) and use these variables when installing Windows 7. Nothing fancy. I think this can be achieved by using a database in MDT, right? Auto-activation seems cool but is not required. Let's start easy :-).

Hi, I need to install Windows 7 to a whole bunch of PC's. As these Windows 7 licenses are all OEM's I have a different key for every PC. All PC's have also been labeled and that label should correspond with a certain OEM key. I would like to use PXE for distribution of the Windows 7 image. I have been playing around with WDS, WAIK and MDT but I'm overwhelmed and I'm stuck. I think it's time to start all-over and really understand now what I'm doing :-). All I want to achieve is to install Windows 7 unattended (no fancy customisations) through PXE and to have the PC assigned a specific PC name and corresponding OEM key. For that I have used a Deployment database but no settings seem to pick-up from the database. So what would be the best way to achieve this?

Might that be a part of the issue?

I also saw the MediaPlayer mess but I guess the tool is just skipping them because it all works if I exclude IE7 and its hotfixes. Nonetheless, I'll clean that up. In our environment SP2 is still the standard. Can't change that.

That might be problematic because 'the list' is for SP3 and we're still on SP2...

Attached you can find my log file. I see that I have a lot more hotfixes then you have in your sticky. Should I clean up my list? Maybe something else from the log that rings a bell? This file is automatically generated by HFSLIP HFSLIP is for personal use only Copyright© TommyP 2005-2008 ============================HOW TO REPORT A PROBLEM============================ If running into problems, refer to http://hfslip.org/support.html HFSLIP support forum: http://msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=129 =============================================================================== Host OS - Windows XP HFSLIP Version - 1.7.8, build 80614 HFSLIP Path - C:\$work$\#\HFSLIP\ OS in SOURCESS - Windows XP Professional SP2 English MSIE Version - MSIE7 Drivers - DRIVER.CAB Updated CD Install Path - Default CDTAG - WIN51 =============================================================================== Files in your HF folder: IE7-WindowsXP-KB932538-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB938127-v2-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB938127-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB941158-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB944520-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB950759-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB956390-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB958215-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB960714-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-KB961260-x86-ENU.exe IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe msxml4-KB954430-enu.exe msxml6-KB954459-enu-x86.exe WindowsMedia10-KB917734-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia10-KB936782-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia11-KB954154-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia6-KB925398-v2-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia9-KB911565-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia9-KB936782-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia9-KB954156-x86-ENU.exe WindowsMedia-KB911564-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB873339-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB885835-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB885836-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB887472-x86-enu.exe WindowsXP-KB888302-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB890859-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB891781-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB893756-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB896358-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB896423-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB896428-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB899587-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB899591-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB900725-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB901017-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB901190-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB901214-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB902400-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB905414-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB905749-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB908519-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB908531-v2-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB911280-v2-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB911562-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB911927-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB913580-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB914388-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB914389-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB918118-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB918439-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB920213-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB920670-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB920683-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB920685-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB923191-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB923810-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB923980-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB924191-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB924270-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB924496-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB924667-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB925902-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB926247-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB926255-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB926436-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB927779-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB927802-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB928255-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB928843-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB929123-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB930178-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB931261-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB932168-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB933729-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB935839-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB937894-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB938127-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB939373-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB941202-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB941569-x86-ENU.EXE WindowsXP-KB942830-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB942831-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB943055-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB943460-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB943485-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB944338-v2-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB944653-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB945553-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB946026-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB946648-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB949269-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB950749-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB950760-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB950762-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB950974-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB951066-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB951376-v2-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB951698-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB951748-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB952954-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB953155-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB954600-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB955069-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB956802-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB956803-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB956841-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB957095-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB957097-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB958644-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB958687-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB958690-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-KB960225-x86-ENU.exe WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB952069-v2-x86-ENU.exe Files in your HFCABS folder: Files in your HFGUIRUNONCE folder: Files in your HFSVCPACK folder: Files in your HFSVCPACK_SW1 folder: Files in your HFSVCPACK_SW2 folder: Files in your HFTOOLS folder: ModifyPE.asm modifyPE.exe modifype.txt PE-Header.INC Standard.inc Win32definitions.inc Files in your REPLACE folder: =============================================================================== HFSLIP run time: 19m33s

Hi, I'm trying to slipstream IE7 into Windows XP SP2 but upon using the image I always get the following error during setup: Setup cannot copy the file: advpack.mui. Any idea where to start looking? I can see that advpack.mu_ is located in the source I386 folder but I cannot find it under c:\$win_nt$.~bt\i386 so setup doesn't seem to copy the file when installing unattended.