Hey everyone, I hopping someone out there can help me.

I am looking how to sysprep Vista, so i can rename and have it join a domain. I use ghost to create my images. So i am not using Ximage. Is possible to but the file in the file structure like was done in XP? Could i put a unattened.xml file somewhere?

its very different to XP

see this post to get details of how to do it in Vista and if you want to see whats different between sysprep in XP versus Vista then look here on Technet (scroll down to sysprep...)

to use unattend.xml you'll need Windows SIM, this application can be installed as part of WAIK or BDD 2007.

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I am having same problem. I have the image and I did sysprep but I am using a floppy for the unattend.xml file but it is just skipping right over it. Does anyone know why that maybe happening?

are you using an OEM version of vista ? or the msdn dvd ?

We are using a MSDN Version. I still dont know a answer to this problem.

You can place your xml in any location inside the install, however placing it in the sysprep folder is probably your best bet:

%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\sysprep

You then fire off sysprep using the following command: sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:<file>.xml

or use a complete path to your xml file.