Vista SP1: Unattended Office ?

[cleanz]

Hi, I used Nlite before and have recently started using Vista..so I have been poking round the forum looking to see whats going on in the world of 'unattended Vista installs'

I have:

Vista Ultimate x64. Integrated SP1 MSDN DVD

Vlite

I would like to slipstream Office 2007 into a 'yet to be created' Vista unattended Disk, I would like to see how easy it will be before looking to add other apps

Questions

1)

There are 2 versions of WAIK avaliable, do I need to use the SP1 version and will the guide posted on this forum still work?

http://firegeier.unattended-sponsor.de/en/applications.html

Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

2)

I notice people have been posting their configs, does this mean that Vlite is still being developed, ie certain combinations of options choices: means unattended install problems

[anyweb]

you need to use the latest version of the WAIK for Vista Service pack 1 (and windows 2008 server) more details about that here >

there are currently two main releases of the WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) the first version was released in conjunction with Windows Vista to aid in its' deployment, and the WAIK is used for the following (source, microsoft)

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vista™ family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, and create Windows PE images

the file details for the first version are vista_6000.16386.061101-2205-LRMAIK_EN.img from 13/2/2007.

A year or so later a newer version of the WAIK was released to support Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008, the file details for that release are 6001.18000.080118-1840-kb3aik_en.iso from 6/3/2008.

If you are planning on deploying Windows Vista, use the first version if you already have it, or if you are deploying Windows Vista SP1 then use the second release. In addition, if you plan on deploying Windows Server 2008, you'll need the second release.

Before installing the WAIK you'll need to install MSXML 6.0. MSXML 6.0 is available on the latest WAIK iso download (and the .NET 2.0 Framework is also included)

cheers

anyweb