Right seriously, this can't be that hard. W7 deployment

Django x2 · 12 Aug 2010 at 15:55

Ok, We have WDS and I captured an image with WDS (Windows 7, Av and Office, a few tweaks, etc).

Then, I sysprep'd it.

Now, I want to unattend the install with a simple answer file but I can't seem to find how to do this.

I've even exported the image, opened it in WAIK WSIM, created an answer file, saved it, pointed to it in WDS and still it just carries on asking me for information.

What am I doing wrong, or, is there a much much easier way?

Thanks

Django x2 · 12 Aug 2010 at 18:56

whats all this about deployment shares though, seriously, is that needed?

Django x2 · 13 Aug 2010 at 09:26

I'm going through MDT which kicks out a nice unattend file. I could, in theory, just use this. All this makes WDS seem pointless though. I suppose a simple script to join the machine to the domain, select language, etc isn't too hard but I want minimal to zero user action

Django x2 · 13 Aug 2010 at 17:18

So, I've put MDT into capture mode and booted the LiteTouch ISO. It's installed Windows 7 and I've stuck Office on there and MSE, etc. Can I domain join at this stage or not?

Also, once I've finished. Do I run sysprep? How does MDT know that i've run sysprep and then do the capture?