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Hello Phorze! AFAIK for the moment, there is no special log for application installs! But if I have probelms with my unattend I start with setupact.log and setuperr.log located inside %Windir%\Panther\Unattend GC. In most cases I've got a hint there why something went wrong. Regards, Martin

Hello Phorze! Yes, exactly. Look here for more details. Regards, Martin

During running Vista or during unattended Setup? Martin

Hello finnish! Why you wanna avoid using Regtweaks? Regards, Martin

Guide Update: I've worked over Applications, Regtweaks and Copy Profile section of the guide. Everything is in one xml now. Applications are installed in auditMode now, cause - it provides a status window for application install (oobeSystem doesn't) - it supports reboots between installs Note: In audit mode you need to call the installer using cmd /c. Otherwise it will not recognice the %AppsRoot% variable. Regards, Martin

That is normal. It's taking longer on my test system, but that's an old one. Sysprep is located in %Windir%\system32\sysprep. If you want to generalize the system for example, use the following command (Insert \ Synchronous Command): %WINDIR%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /quiet /oobe /reboot If you need a company logo during oobe, check out here on Microsoft. Regards, Martin

Hello shampoo! First of all the InputLocale Value for Dutch should look like this, but this has nothing to do with you Problem: <InputLocale>0413:00000413</InputLocale> Your problem is caused by the following section and it's not looking like it supposed to: <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallFrom> <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Value>Windows Vista Ultimate</Value> <Key>Windows Vista Business</Key> </MetaData> <Path>D:\VISTADVD\sources\install.wim</Path> <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Value>Windows Home Premium</Value> <Key>1</Key> </MetaData> </InstallFrom> <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> 1. Problem: You can't use two MetaData Properties, just ONE per xml at the same time! 2. Problem: Key and Value setting do not correspond the wright way in your xml! The ImageInstall section should look like this if you want to install ULTIMATE: <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallFrom> <Path>install.wim</Path> <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key> <Value>Windows Vista ULTIMATE</Value> </MetaData> </InstallFrom> <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> OR it should look like this for BUSINESS: <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallFrom> <Path>install.wim</Path> <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key> <Value>Windows Vista BUSINESS</Value> </MetaData> </InstallFrom> <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> OR it should look like this for HOMEPREMIUM: <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallFrom> <Path>install.wim</Path> <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key> <Value>Windows Vista HOMEPREMIUM</Value> </MetaData> </InstallFrom> <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> After choosing one of these alternates, depending on the Product Key you have, it should work! Regards, Martin

It's the background image with all of the grey lines. Well... the background image is an image with 2 pix only and will be repeated. But I will have a look at it. Thanks, Martin EDIT: I think, I've fixed it. Changed the file format from png to gif. Did not know, that IE still has problems to "work" with png files. Seems to work faster now.

Thank you very much for the feedback guys! I will work over the layout than during week and will switch from table based layout to full CSS layout. That should make it faster. Regards, Martin

Hello sweethip! I'm not a to well HTML programmer, so it could be that this site gives you some problems depending on system an browser you're using. What OS and which browser you're using? Regards, Martin

Hmm... it's working on my IE 7. However it could be, cause I'm not a to good HTML programmer. And there is no browser or OS check integrated so far. So... I know that the site could fail depending on the system. Well, I'm not a programmer so I don't understand some things like tokens, etc. I do understand that it's necessary to parse the xml's to make it into one. I don't know German so I didn't know what all those VU Batch Modules were for. Since I didn't know, I didn't want to run them. I did, however, strip your offline_update.cmd, took the necessary parts, modified it for my system folders and it worked without all the other files. So, I was just referring to all the VU Batch files. You're offline_update.cmd is pretty well organized. Well... I've translated it to English meanwhile. Could it be, that you're still using the German version or is my English such bad? My English teacher I've had in school years ago, would agree! Well, I've not checked if it is a must. But it's always created inside Vista source folder. So it's automatically inside new ISO once I do any changes. AFAIK the catalog is important for WSIM only, not during setup. So it should not be necessary to put it back to the ISO. Regards, Martin

Hello! I've updated the offline_update.cmd of VU Batch Modules. It was failing on English based OS and may be on other languages, too. I've changed it, that it will now working for English OS by default but you may need to adjust it for other languages. Check out here inside offline_update.cmd to find out more about. Regards, Martin

No, that's not possible, cause dependencies between the different updates will only be checked the right way, when using together in ONE xml file! Sure that's ok - if you're guide will be for free certainly! However I'm updating it for the moment, too. What is to complicated in your opinion? Would it be necessary to explain it more detailed? The idea was, that you just need to execute the modules. Regards, Martin

Hello spacesurfer! It seems to be, that I missed this point. The output of DIR /OD command depends on the language you're using. I will add an explanation for that inside offline_update.cmd and at Update section of guide. This is caused by PM/AM Token. This Token does not exist for German based OS. So Token 4 is the file name in German OS, but in English it's Token 5. You're right! Haven't thought about that, while translating! Thanks, for your feedback! Regards, Martin

Well... if you ask me... that is pretty simple. First I did it the manual way. This is described in WAIK help. Than I've checked how the structure of the xml - which is created by WSIM for Updates - is looking like. Than you just rebuild the structure using ECHO command redirected to an file instead of screen. Ok... between is little bit try 'n' error but at least very simple. Yes, it's the same xml. Regards, Martin

You're welcome! Belive me... I had to play with it a whole bunch of time to find out about. It's not a problem of pkgmgr. That is a known problem of START command. BTW... I've described that problem in one of the batchs of VU Batch Modules, but I've not explained that in offline_updates.cmd, so I need to add the hint there, too. Regards, Martin

Hello spacesurfer! You need to change your command line like this: START "Integrate Updates..." /WAIT "%Programfiles%\Windows AIK\Tools\Servicing\pkgmgr.exe" /o:D:\Vista_Work\Mount;D:\Vista_Work\Mount\Windows /n:D:\Vista_Work\Updates\integrate.xml /s:D:\Vista_Work\Sandbox /l:D:\Vista_Work\integrate.log The problem is, that the first expression in quetes is interpreted as Window title. Regards, Martin

Do you use an empty HD? What are you doing during Disc Configuration exactly? How many HDs you've inside your system? Could you please post your actual Autounattend.xml, too? Without Product Key certainly. Regards, Martin

@ MarcJ: It could be the, that it's the DVD. Have you tried out to remove the oobe.xml? You may have to mount install.wim and remove it from there, but I'm not sure. Never have had a OEM DVD in my hands so far. BTW Upgrade DVD isn't a good sources for unattended setups, too, I guess. Would you be able to send a list with directory structure of OEM DVD? Would be important to know, cause the most private people will have to work with an OEM DVD at least. And this is the main target group of this guide. Regards, Martin

The first introducing screens are the BDD Deployment Wizard. To automate that, you need to adjust the roles. Look for zero touch installation in BDD docs. There is a further doc which describes the settings for roles configuration file. That is an ini file. I don't have the doc titles in mind, cause after trying out a little bit, I decided to go back to WAIK only. However I know that there are docs describing what you want to do. Keywords: Zero touch, roles That should help. Regards, Martin

Ok... for a system backup I would use imagex.exe than. That should work with all Vista versions. Martin

Hello b|lly again! I've may missunderstood. Are you talking about the backup program, that is started from within Vista OR do you talk about the recovery program you can let run from setup DVD before running setup? Martin

Hello maxXPsoft! That is true for oobeSystem pass only. After doing further tests now, I've recognized that a status window is comming up for me during auditUser but not during oobeSystem pass. But I've not tested yet all kind of different combinations... Regards, Martin

What you've tried exactly? The WPI I would still start with synchronous command in OOBE. But I'm not sure what you're trying to do for the moment. May post your autounattend.xml to clear this up. Thanks 'n' regards, Martin

I'm integrating updates (msu format) using pkgmgr like described here. You'll find the batch at the end of the text. Regards, Martin