Harpoon76

Just booted an HP Core i5 desktop with the USB stick and that skips straight through to picking which version of 2008 R2 to install, so who knows what is going on the DL120 G7!

HP ProLiant ML350 G6 - AutoUnattend works as expected (skips regional choice) HP ProLiant DL120 G7 - Asks for language but the rest of AutoUnattend goes through after choosing edition and partitioning the array I've got both servers on the bench at the moment and simply took the USB stick from the DL120 (which didn't skip the regional settings) to the ML350 (which did skip the regional settings). WTF?

Haaaaaaaaaa! Yes! It worked! :thumbup I just get asked for which edition of 2008 R2 to install and the initial disk partitioning Many, many thanks maxXPsoft!

I haven't been down this road yet. I mounted install.wim (my 20008 R2 ISO came from TechNet): L:\>dism /image:c:\servicing /get-intl Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Reporting offline international settings. Default system UI language : en-US System locale : en-US Default time zone : Pacific Standard Time User locale for default user : en-US Location : United States (GEOID = 244) Active keyboard(s) : 0409:00000409 Keyboard layered driver : PC/AT Enhanced Keyboard (101/102-Key) Installed language(s): en-US Type : Fully localized language. The operation completed successfully. Bit of poking later: L:\>dism /image:c:\servicing /get-intl Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Reporting offline international settings. Default system UI language : en-US System locale : en-GB Default time zone : GMT Standard Time User locale for default user : en-GB Location : United Kingdom (GEOID = 242) Active keyboard(s) : 0809:00000809 Keyboard layered driver : PC/AT Enhanced Keyboard (101/102-Key) Installed language(s): en-US Type : Fully localized language. The operation completed successfully. Let's give that a go then...

No luck with this XML either... AutoUnattend.xml

I was taking en-GB from here I'd also found this blog post which detailed using en-GB rather than en-UK. The OOBE settings also seem to be working, so I was thinking en-GB is correct. Will try en-UK and report back.

I think I'd taken SystemLocale out for that attempt after looking at the information in setupact.log Either way, just tried the attached file and still get prompted for language as setup starts AutoUnattend.xml

Forgot to click "Attach This File" AutoUnattend.xml

I'm trying to build an autounattend.xml to script through the installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Don't want to use WDS or anything fancy, just make installing vanilla servers faster. I've got the WAIK and I've built my XML from that (attached). The XML does everything I want - except I always get asked to pick the language / locale at the start of setup, plus click "Install Now". I found this thread which the poster says works. So I copied all of the XML, yet setup still asks for the regional settings I've tried so many combinations under "Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" without any joy - it's very annoying that one little bit doesn't work. If anyone can spot where am I going wrong, that would be great! Thanks, Chris.