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..

Post your answer file?

Please find attached the answerfile used.

thanks..

AutoUnattend.xml

The same answer file works fine with windows 2008.

Edited July 5, 201214 yr by srihariram

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.

here attached my win8rp file for your reference

AUTOUNATTEND.XML