Unattended windows 8 sever installation.

[srihariram]

Hi,

Unattended windows 8 installation, is failing with error " windows cannot read the <productkey> setting from the unattend answer file" on a physical server installation.

Any pointers on how to so solve it.

thanks in advance..

[Tripredacus]

Post your answer file?

[srihariram]

Please find attached the answerfile used.

thanks..

AutoUnattend.xml

The same answer file works fine with windows 2008.

Edited July 5, 2012 by srihariram

[Tripredacus]

Your XML seems strange. Why do you have multiple Reseal objects? You seem to have 3 Microsoft-Windows-Deployment components specified at the end of the file. Do you really need all of those? There are also a few components that have no objects in them.

I would guess (hopefully) that you have redacted parts of the XML to keep in confidence.

A quick look: InputLocal has the wrong data. Should be 0409:00000409 and not en-US.

There are many changes between Server 2008 RTM and Server 2012 Beta. Have you validated this answer file against a Server 2012 catalog in WSIM? I see that some people encounter this error (mostly in VMWare) when a deprecated setting is present.

[chlje]

here attached my win8rp file for your reference

AUTOUNATTEND.XML