one of our customers has been stalking me this week with emails,

he is in the process of rolling out new machines with W7 with SCCM.

only now he discovers that he needs the US International Keyboard layout as well as all the others I already inserted in the unattend file,

here is the excerpt of that:

<component language="neutral" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" versionScope="nonSxS" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" processorArchitecture="x86" name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core">

<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>

<InputLocale>en-US;is-IS;nb-NO;fr-FR;de-LI;nl-BE</InputLocale>

<SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>

<UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>

<UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>

the thing is that I can't find the shortname for US International, have searched on technet and I can only find the hex code: 20409:00020409

I will try that in my lab, unless someone has a better idea ?

well, I tried it in my lab yesterday, by adding the US-international hex code 20409:00020409 as another Input locale

it does work, but you cannot select the keyboard layout from among the others, you have to select it from the language bar.

I guess that is because the Us layout is already there?

so the question is closed I would say..