When trying to do an unattended using autounattend, i get an error that says it cannot parse the file in the pass specialize, under the component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup. i cant see the error but perhaps maybe someone else can. Here is my full file.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
  <settings pass="windowsPE">
    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="NonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <SetupUILanguage>
        <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
      </SetupUILanguage>
      <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
      <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
      <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
      <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
    </component>
    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="NonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <UserData>
        <ProductKey>
          <Key></Key>
          <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
        </ProductKey>
        <Organization>Owner-Corp</Organization>
        <FullName>OwnerPC</FullName>
        <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
      </UserData>
      <ImageInstall>
        <OSImage>
          <InstallFrom>
            <MetaData wcm:action="add">
              <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key>
              <Value></Value>
            </MetaData>
          </InstallFrom>
          <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>
          <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
        </OSImage>
      </ImageInstall>
    </component>
  </settings>
  <settings pass="oobeSystem">
    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="NonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <OOBE>
        <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
        <NetworkLocation>Home</NetworkLocation>
        <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
	  <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
	  <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
      </OOBE>

<UserAccounts>
				<LocalAccounts>
					<LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
						<Password>
						</Password>
						<Description>user account</Description>
						<DisplayName>User</DisplayName>
						<Group>Administrators</Group>
						<Name>User</Name>
					</LocalAccount>
				</LocalAccounts>
</UserAccounts>



    </component>
  </settings>
  <settings pass="specialize">
    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="NonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
           <AutoLogon>
				<Username>User</Username>
				<Enabled>true</Enabled>
				<LogonCount>2</LogonCount>
			</AutoLogon>

<ComputerName>Owner*</ComputerName>
 <TimeZone>Mountain Standard Time</TimeZone>





    </component>
    <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC-UX" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="NonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation>
    </component>
  </settings>
  </unattend>

I found the problem, apparnetly unattended doesnt like to set computer name and so I had to remove it...so it now asks me for the computername which is stupid since this is supposed to be fully unattended...any ideas for this problem?

another issue i'm having is when the system tries to login for the first time, it says the user must change the password...another annoying problem..any way to skip that password problem?

also, i told it to NOT skip the machineOOBE and set the network location, and it still asks..any ideas?

other than that it looks like its working...

thanks

Did you try it without the '*' character in <computername>. Since parse errors can have to do with unreadable item maybe it just doesn't like that char.

yeah and that seems ok, the problem is that I do want it to generate a random name since this disc is used to reinstall windows on alot of different machines. Does anyone haev a solution to provide a random computer name?

-thanks