Unattended XP Installs with Windows Deployment Services

August 15th, 2007 2:43 pm

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Reference for myself (and anyone else that’s interested) - here’s my unattend.xml file for installing Windows XP SP2 completely unattended. Using this in conjunction with a sysprep.inf file, you can achieve a completely unattended XP install using Windows Deployment Services.

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Initial Setup of Windows Server 2008 Core

August 1st, 2007 3:23 pm

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Microsoft’s forthcoming server platform, Windows Server 2008, is out pretty soon now. So, as I’m going to be deploying this pretty soon after its release, I thought it a good idea to start playing with one of the more interesting parts of Windows Server 2008, the Core installation.

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    Rob Whitehouse is an IT professional from Fulham in London, the UK. At work he specialises in systems architecture and large scale web infrastructures. He's an MCSE for Windows NT4 and 2003 as well as an MCITP: Windows 2008 Enterprise Admin and an MCTS: SQL Server 2005. He has also dabbled in Java, C# and pretty much every web-based language. Outside of work he can be found watching or playing sports, or in the local pub.

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