adhawkins

Odd. Computer name prompt is now gone. Must have messed something up I guess! Last job is to 'brand' the login and welcome screens. Need to find some documentation on that I think. Andy

Done a bit more digging and it seems the 'en-GB' isn't included in the setup, you have to specify the setup UI settings as en-US, but the user locale's etc. as en-GB. All seems to work now. Trying to get rid of the 'Computer Name' prompt during the OOBE. I've specified ComputerName in the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup section of 'Specialize' in both the initial autounattend.xml and the one I pass into sysprep before going into the OOBE stage, but I still get the prompt to set the machine name. Any way to get rid of this? Cheers Andy

Having 2 XML files makes sense. The reason I am specifying the OEM information more than once was really just my failing to completely understand at what point in the process it should be done. It should like your recommendation of getting to audit mode first is a good one. I can then concentrate on the rest of the stuff. Thanks for the pointer about Registered Organization and the like. I'll remove those. Can you offer any assistance as to why the locale stuff for the initial install isn't working? I was a little confused as to exactly what I should be putting in there for a UK install. Can you offer any assistance? Thanks again for the help so far. Andy

Ok, I think there was some confusion as to the ordering of my file. I've now reordered it and attached it again autounattend-cleaned.xml As you can see, the Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE section is present in the windowsPE pass. I specify the following: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SetupUILanguage> <UILanguage>en-GB</UILanguage> </SetupUILanguage> <UILanguage>en-GB</UILanguage> <InputLocale>2057:00000809</InputLocale> <SystemLocale>en-GB</SystemLocale> <UILanguageFallback>en-GB</UILanguageFallback> <UserLocale>en-GB</UserLocale> </component> However, I am still prompted during the first part of the install to select the language, with English US being given as the default. Any suggestions? Just to clarify one thing, the oobesystem entries will only be applied if I specify the unattend file to apply when I do the sysprep call to 'seal' the installation? I think that may be where I was getting confused, I was assuming that I just needed one file that would be applied for every stage of the installation. I'll retry the installation passing in the unattend file again at the point where I call sysprep to seal the installation. Can you tell me what else is wrong with the file? You say I have 'so much wrong' with it, but it was all generated using the Windows System Image Manager tool. Thanks again for your input. Andy

Hi all, I've attached a slightly sanitised versions of my autounattend-cleaned.xml and oobe-cleaned.xml files to this post. I'd appreciate it if someone could look over them and help me understand why the following doesn't work as I want: 1. Before the installation, it prompts me for the language settings (defaults to English US). I think I've set it to automatically use UK English, but this isn't being applied. 2. When running the first boot after 'sealing' the system (running the sysprep gui with Enter OOBE and generalize ticked), it again prompts for language settings. This time all the defaults are correctly set to UK English, but I'd rather this page were skipped 3. Again during first boot after sealing, it prompts to create a user and enter a machine name. I'd rather this step were skipped 4. First boot after sealing, it prompts for the network location (Work, Home, Public). I think I've told it to use 'Work', but this page is still shown. 5. First boot after sealing, it also prompts for updates (automatic, no updates etc.). Again, I think I've told it not to apply updates, but this page is still shown. Also, I'm having to use setupcomplete.cmd to import a registry file to enable auto-login. This may only be required because of the prompt for user details as in 3) above. Is this necessary, or will the AutoLogon entries in the autounattend.xml file be persistent if I can get rid of the prompt to create a user? I'd appreciate any advice you can offer. Thanks Andy