wdsclientunattend shutdown client computer
Hi,
I am using WDS (2008R2) to deploy a preconfigured and syspreped Windows 7 image for a client. My WDS server is fully fonctional, i am able to boot from the PXE, join the multicast session and push the image to the client computers.
I have a wdsclientunattend.xml file all the settings are working correctly (user id, password, partition modification...) exept the setting that tells the computer to shutdown before OOBE.
In Pass 1, Windows PE, I have set the Restart setting to Shutdown (
<Restart>Shutdown</Restart
In the help file it says "Restart specifies whether to restart or to shut down the computer after the windowsPE configuration pass. This setting is specific to Windows PE scenarios. Once image-based installation begins, this setting is ignored." .
Anybody know how I can shut down the computers after the image is applyed to the drive??
Thank you.
I am using WDS (2008R2) to deploy a preconfigured and syspreped Windows 7 image for a client. My WDS server is fully fonctional, i am able to boot from the PXE, join the multicast session and push the image to the client computers.
I have a wdsclientunattend.xml file all the settings are working correctly (user id, password, partition modification...) exept the setting that tells the computer to shutdown before OOBE.
In Pass 1, Windows PE, I have set the Restart setting to Shutdown (
<Restart>Shutdown</Restart
In the help file it says "Restart specifies whether to restart or to shut down the computer after the windowsPE configuration pass. This setting is specific to Windows PE scenarios. Once image-based installation begins, this setting is ignored." .
Anybody know how I can shut down the computers after the image is applyed to the drive??
Thank you.
ASKER
I did it with a custom WinPE boot image. I took the WinPe from Windows 7 AIK and added WDSMCAST.EXE and IMAGEX.EXE to it. I made a batch files to run DISKPART to create the OS partition, copy my .wim file and my .rwm file (reference file) to the local C: drive using the WDSMCAST.EXE. After that I used IMAGEX to apply the image to the drive.
After that I will use BCDBOOT to initialize boot configuration.
After that I will use BCDBOOT to initialize boot configuration.
I don't think I'll be able to help with this. I'm familiar with WDS and answer files, but I haven't gotten into using WinPE like this.
I recommend that you use the Request Attention button try to get other experts to help with this one. Good luck.
I recommend that you use the Request Attention button try to get other experts to help with this one. Good luck.
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Glad you got it working. You can accept your own post as the solution.
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Found it myself
If all you want to do is push out an image I would look at other solutions for this.