Hi All,

Can anyone please tell me that how can I edit my autounattended.xml so that it will ask me to enter the computername? I have read WAIK reference guide and according that if I leave it empty then it should ask me to enter the PC name which I have tried and so far setup did not ask me to enter any name at all. Below I have pasted reference guide stuff.

ComputerName

ComputerName specifies the computer name used to access the computer from the network.

<h1 class="heading">Values</h1> Computer_name

Specifies the computer name used to access the computer from the network. If ComputerName is empty or missing, the user must enter a computer name in Windows Welcome.

If you set this value to an asterisk (*), a random computer name is generated. This random name has at most 8 characters from the RegisteredOwnerRegisteredOrganization strings plus random characters. and/or

Computer_name is a string with a maximum length of 15 characters.

This string type supports empty elements.

Hi All,

Can anyone please tell me that how can I edit my autounattended.xml so that it will ask me to enter the computername? I have read WAIK reference guide and according that if I leave it empty then it should ask me to enter the PC name which I have tried and so far setup did not ask me to enter any name at all. Below I have pasted reference guide stuff.

ComputerName

ComputerName specifies the computer name used to access the computer from the network.

<h1 class="heading">Values</h1> Computer_name

Specifies the computer name used to access the computer from the network. If ComputerName is empty or missing, the user must enter a computer name in Windows Welcome.

If you set this value to an asterisk (*), a random computer name is generated. This random name has at most 8 characters from the RegisteredOwnerRegisteredOrganization strings plus random characters. and/or

Computer_name is a string with a maximum length of 15 characters.

This string type supports empty elements.

it will prompt you for a computer name, but not during installtion, it will wait for the windows welcome section, then you can enter a computer name. What happens now when you run with the xml file you are using?

Hi All,

Can anyone please tell me that how can I edit my autounattended.xml so that it will ask me to enter the computername? I have read WAIK reference guide and according that if I leave it empty then it should ask me to enter the PC name which I have tried and so far setup did not ask me to enter any name at all. Below I have pasted reference guide stuff.

ComputerName

ComputerName specifies the computer name used to access the computer from the network.

<h1 class="heading">Values</h1> Computer_name

Specifies the computer name used to access the computer from the network. If ComputerName is empty or missing, the user must enter a computer name in Windows Welcome.

If you set this value to an asterisk (*), a random computer name is generated. This random name has at most 8 characters from the RegisteredOwnerRegisteredOrganization strings plus random characters. and/or

Computer_name is a string with a maximum length of 15 characters.

This string type supports empty elements.

it will prompt you for a computer name, but not during installtion, it will wait for the windows welcome section, then you can enter a computer name. What happens now when you run with the xml file you are using?

It will go thru the setup and genrate a random name. Also if leave its value empty then this field will not be saved in xml file, so what I right click on the computername field and choose write an empty string so it looks like this in xml file:

<ComputerName />

I have tested other settings and they seems to be working fine. (such as putting * and then it genrate random computer name.

Other thing that I should mention that I am skipping those two settings (SkipUserOOBE and SkipMachineOOBE, I am setting these two field to true), not sure if they have anything to do with my comutername settings.

Edited February 11, 200818 yr by music5_5

Its late here and i'm not at work where i keep all my stuff, but i'm pretty sure that SkipMachineOOBE set to true will skip your settings for ComputerName.

In fact, i think you can't even set that to false as it should be an empty string.

Its late here and i'm not at work where i keep all my stuff, but i'm pretty sure that SkipMachineOOBE set to true will skip your settings for ComputerName.

In fact, i think you can't even set that to false as it should be an empty string.

Hi,

I have tried using SkipMachineOOBE settings to empty string but now setup asks me to create a user account instead asking me for a computer name. I would like to skip creating user but I would like to type-in the computername. Do you know if this has anything to do with SkipUserOOBE set to true?

Thanks,