unattended vista

[MagicAndre1981]

this is a limitation of WinPE

[cluberti]

And the chances of it doing so are slim - WinPE is supposed to be a launching point for imaging or installing Windows, and not much more. It took three versions to get WMI support, so don't expect .NET anytime soon .

[SoultakerPT]

I'm bored with that! baaah...

Just wanted to make a good looking app to launch OS installation.

[easyindian]

Where can I get Windows System Image Manager?

[AndyJD]

Where can I get Windows System Image Manager?

You will find it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

[LeveL]

Win some you lose some...

... yes... and... what LINE is the error on? I don't know, it does not say.

I also got it to (sort of) work later on, but after formatting the partition

it said at the bottom "Windows cannot install to this partition". Hmmm,

I left out the InstallTo section because I want to choose where to

install to. Maybe it needs to be there but needs to be blank E.G.

<InstallTo>

<DiskID></DiskID>

<PartitionID></PartitionID>

</InstallTo>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nope, it doesn't work to remove those 4 lines above, I get this...

... yes... and... what LINE is the value on thats "outside the range of

acceptable values" huh? Its clever enough to get an error and yet dumb

enough not to tell you what line is wrong - talking of acceptable values,

this isn't one of them!

Edited November 25, 2006 by LeveL

[steviewonder]

It is here for fast download:

800 megs

Vista Deployment Tool

[LeveL]

Doesn't matter I sorted it out.

The problem?

Where to put $OEM$

The solution?

It goes inside the X:\sources folder!

Edited November 26, 2006 by LeveL

[SoultakerPT]

Ok, I'm getting a little confused now.

I've been able to insert a boot image (winpe) on my WDS server and I can boot from that same image.

Now my question is:

Is there anyway to initiate a Vista WIM deployment? From a command prompt?

[cluberti]

If you've added a boot image and an install image (you have to add both to the wdsutil), you should see your install images (you won't see x64 images added to the WDS server if you're running x86) after you provide your logon credentials.

[SoultakerPT]

Cluberti:

what I'm talking about is something like the "old" winnt32.exe.

It's there something like that?

[cluberti]

No, the installer is completely image-driven. No more winnt or winnt32, at all.

[SoultakerPT]

Ok..

I'm starting today using the BDD 2007 RC1.

The Workbench is simply awesome. Now I'm just wondering what is in fact the BDD. Just a way to "organize" things or an big scale deployment tool that replaces the WAIK using.

[cluberti]

BDD is Business Desktop Deployment, and it's more of a methodology than a tool - it's a methodology or set of scenarios that tell you how to use the other tools (like the WAIK) to create business-class rollouts of products like Vista and Office.

[SoultakerPT]

But...now with BDD2007 we have the Deployment Workbench where we can put drivers and OS and some other stuff.

That's why I'm so confused with this.