RECOMMENDED: We have already covered many guides that help you simplify. We all like to finish the Windows installation quickly and easily. The best way to install Windows 7 quickly is to install Windows 7 from USB pen drive. Users who are not familiar with Windows command prompt can refer our guide. Having an unattended Windows 7 installation DVD saves your precious time and energy.
You will not be asked to enter product key, keyboard type, time and currency format, and also you will not be asked to click the next button. So with unattended Windows 7 DVD or USB you can easily install Windows in a few minutes without touching your mouse and keyboard!
Requirements: 1. Windows 7 ISO file with key 2. (It’s free) 4. 15 minutes free time 5. Image extractor such as 7-Zip (free), WinRar, or WinZIP. Procedure to create an unattended Windows 7 bootable USB or DVD: 1. Go to the folder where your Windows 7 ISO file is located and extract the ISO to a new folder.
If you already have a Windows 7 DVD, just copy the contents to a new folder. Download, install and run to see the mail window. Note that vLite will ask you to install WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit), you need to install it. And if you are not in a situation to download the 1300 MB WAIK file, you can follow our how to. In the first vLite window, click on the browse button to select your Windows 7 extracted folder. Click Next button to continue. Next, you need to select your edition.
In the following screen, Task Selection, you need to select unattended setup and Bootable ISO options. Click Next, again.
Here you need to enter your Windows 7 product key, and other things. Note that you have many options here.
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We suggest you to enable following options: # Select this version on install # Accept EULA (End User License Agreement) You can also preselect your UI language, time and currency format, keyboard or input method in the Regional tab. Once you enable all required options and enter the product key, click Apply button. Choose the apply method as Rebuild one. Click ok button to proceed to the next step. Rebuilding image process will start, and the process may take 10 to 15 minutes. You are almost close to the conclusion. Clicking the Next button will allow you to create or burn image, label your copy and split image.
Select burn image to burn your unattended Windows 7 to DVD. You are done! @Z and Rickster What Rickster obviously lacks in experience is the integrated management of Windows. Linux lacks ANY standardized management facilities.
No (native) Group Policy, no (native) SMS/SCCM for app distribution to Groups, no (native) Domain/Tree/Forest management, etc. Yes, you can develop these tools, or add 3rd party products, or even integrate into a Windows Environmentbut even then it doesn’t come close to the standardization of Windows, which, as Z pointed out, is a cost-saving approach. Any Linux solution would be custom to the environment, because it would depend on the choices made (how to do Enterprise-Level management, which tool to use, etc). For Windows, this is native, so any 3rd party tools use the native system, so native concepts apply (see Tivoli vs SCCM). Custom solutions cost more to run, period.
And you can’t automatically get someone new off the street who can walk in and immediately start working at high-functional levels-they have to understand the customization and tool matrix. Windows is so standardized that the tools matter far less. pravin says. To Vendorsup and Chris When making the unattended file there are 2 locations you can put the product key in.
Most likely the problem is that this program is putting it in the wrong location for your product key. If your product key is a volume license key it must be placed in the component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup under the child of ProductKey(.aspx) If your product key is single user it is placed in the component Microsoft-windows-setup under the child UserData subchild ProductKey (.aspx) To fix this you can either edit the xml file it is making or just make your own using Windows SIM included in the Windows AIK and just replace it. I have never used Vlite so there may be an option you can just change when you run it to switch between the two. Christopher says. Thanks for making is sound so easy. Would you be insane enough to put yourself in the center of a transition to Linux when your users have AutoCAD, Bentley AutoPlant, Autodesk Inventor, Automation simulators, accounting databases that have no chance on running on anything other than Windows, and document management system with 1 million+ docs that also does not run on Linux?
You would lose a lot more on productivity losses than you would ever save on pushing out Linux and your management would be very much in their right minds to send you packing right away. So, don’t forget about all the APPS that need to run flawlessly, if at all, on Linux. Rickster says. Windows WAIK, MDT, PE’s,. Linux has a very simple tool called “remastersys” One click, and I has a full system “distributable/bootable/unattended/live” backup including personal data to a dvd that I can now use anywhere. Linux, as an OS, has now far surpassed Windows in any user-freindly bracket that Bill could think of?!
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I mean comon, WAIK, PE’s, all this and more, and it still doesn’t work as we can all see via the above posts. The only tool that I could possibly praise is nLite/VLite. Atleast these guys are “trying” to make an unattended Windows install a little less grinding? It’s completely unbelievable how many ppl/companies would still spend $’s of wasted money, just to avoid Linux.
/ Using Unattended Answer Files with WDS You saw earlier how you could customize the PXE client to minimize your interaction with it. Automating Windows 7 Installation you learned how to use Windows System Image Manager (WSIM) to create answer files to automate Windows PE and the installation image installation. We have some good news. You can reuse those techniques to automate the WDS boot image and the deployment of the installation image.
Preparing WSIM WSIM is the tool that is used to create unattended answer files. It uses a catalog file which is created from the WIM file that will be deployed. The WIM files that are stored on the WDS server do not actually contain any files, thanks to the single-instance storage mechanism.
This means you need to export the installation image from WDS so that WSIM can use it to create a catalog. You can export an installation image by right-clicking it and selecting Export Image. In this example, we are exporting the new customized image as D: Wim StdWin7UltimateX86.wim. Automating the Boot Image There can be up to three boot image unattended answer files on the WDS server, one for each possible boot image architecture (x86, x64, or Itanium). These answer files will do everything that you would otherwise have to do manually:. Configure the regionalization for the WinPE pass.
Provide domain credentials to gain access to the WDS server. Create a partition. Modify a partition. Select an image to deploy To automate the boot image, take the following steps:. Use WSIM to create an answer file that will be associated with the boot images of your WDS server. In the Windows Image pane, right-click and choose Select Windows Image. Open the previously exported image.
In this case the file is D: Wim StdWin7UltimateX86.wim. WSIM will need to create a catalog file for the image if it is the first time that WSIM has opened it. Note that this process could take a little while. Sample Unattended Answer Files You can find a number of sample answer files in the WAIK folder (the default location is C: Program Files Windows AIK Samples). Microsoft has also shared some sample answer files here:. Choose File → New Answer File to create a new empty answer file, whose contents you can edit in the Answer File pane.
You will be adding a few components from the Windows Image pane to the Answer File pane and editing the settings in the right-hand pane of WSIM. A possible set of details for an unattended execution of the boot image is shown in Table below. Validate the answer file (using the Validate Answer File on the Tools menu) and then save it. You should note that an answer file may still have issues when you use it even if the validation shows none. For example, you could enter an invalid product key.
The location for WDS client answer files is the WDSClientUnattend folder in the RemoteInstall folder. For example, we will save WDSClientUnattend.xml in D: RemoteInstall WDSClientUnattend. You can associate this WDS client unattended answer file with boot images of a specific architecture via the properties of the WDS server in the WDS console. Navigate to the Client tab. Select the option Enable Unattended Installation.
Click the Browse button to find and select the unattended answer file(s) in the WDSClientUnattend folder.
Below are basic settings that can be configured during and after installation. What you type will automatically be updated in the 'Output' area. Installation Notes Location: Notes: Enter your comments here.
To make the installation of Operating System fully automated helps the administrators a lot. It is a tedious job to give answers at each installation step on each computer so the concept of Answer file is developed in which each query of the installation steps is answered and during the installation the system gets each answer from that file. In this way the administrator don’t need to sit for a long time in front of a system just to complete the installation. From which the time and efforts are greatly saved by this practice. Our objective was to create an Answer file of the Windows and then attached this answer file with the image installed in Windows Deployment Service on the server so that the administrator is facilitated. Hence we have made the answer file for automating the installations.
To use the Answer file with the image of Windows 7 deployed in Windows Deployment Service (WDS) we created two Answer files. One answer file will allow the system to join the domain and loads the image from server and other automates the further installation steps. To create answer file Go to start menu, expand the Windows Automated installation Kit and select Windows System Image Manager.
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