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to bad I cant give myself 500points
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 &nbsp;We have a couple different Operating Systems on our network. XP, Server, windows 7, vista...<br />
How does windows deployment services know or how do I configure a deployment to use certain answer files as opposed to others? &nbsp;<br />
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Yes ive created an answer file with setupmgr.exe.<br />
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&nbsp; To make this more confusing what if 1/2 my xp machines used a different key code. Do I create two different unattended anser files and images? How does it know which answer file to take?<br />
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My directions just tell me to save a sysprep.inf file in C:\sysprep\<br />
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I dont want to enter the code in manaully on every computer i reimage
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  We have a couple different Operating Systems on our network. XP, Server, windows 7, vista...
How does windows deployment services know or how do I configure a deployment to use certain answer files as opposed to others?  

Yes ive created an answer file with setupmgr.exe.
  
  To make this more confusing what if 1/2 my xp machines used a different key code. Do I create two different unattended anser files and images? How does it know which answer file to take?

My directions just tell me to save a sysprep.inf file in C:\sysprep\

I dont want to enter the code in manaully on every computer i reimage

Windows Deployment Services having multiple answer files for different OSs

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).