Way to not have to specify a key ?

[Bommelding]

As the Topic titel says.

Is there anyway to prevent getting an error during an unattended windows setup when you haven't specified a product key ?

[myselfidem]

Hello!

Yes it's possible, if you inject the key and in this way you don't need to add this one inside "Autounattend.xml"!

You need to mount the image (install.wim) you want and after use this command, empolying Dism.exe

You need to have installed WAIK for Windows 7 first!

Adapt to your needs (example for Windows 7 Ultimate x86 and temp mount folder called "test")

Set_Product_Key.cmd

@echo off
echo ==Mounting Image Index:5 Windows 7 Ultimate== 
"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\Servicing\Dism.exe" /Mount-Wim /WimFile:"C:\win7pro\sources\install.wim" /Index:5 /MountDir:"C:\test" 
pause to see if ERROR 
echo. 
echo ==Set Valid ProductKey (or Default) for Windows 7 Ultimate== 
"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\Servicing\Dism.exe" /Image:"C:\test" /Set-ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX 
pause to see if ERROR 
echo. 
echo ==Unmount and Commit Image Index:5 Windows 7 Ultimate== 
"C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\Servicing\Dism.exe" /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:"C:\test" /commit 
pause to see if ERROR 

Cheers

Edited November 11, 2010 by myselfidem