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ImageInstall DataImage component not working in WDS unattend installation. Please Help.

• Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:00 PMvcxvcvxvx

   
  

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  So far I have got Windows Deployment Services running on Windows 2008 Server Standard to deploy images to any target machines. I am trying to create a complete unattend.xml file to automate the whole process. I want to be able to automatically login so I can choose an image from the selection menu, automatically wipe the disk and create two partitions, and automatically deploy an additional "dataimage" to one of the partitions. So far I have created an unattend.xml to do just that, however the only thing not working is the ImageInstall Dataimage component. The unattend.xml file did succesfully login automatically, it allowed me to choose an image to deploy to the second partition, and successfully configured the "diskconfiguration" settings automatically. I was able to see that two partitions were created, and that one of the partition had the deployed image in it. But it skips over the ImageInstall part of the xml file. Here is the unattend.xml file I have got so far:

  
  

  <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
  <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
     <settings pass="windowsPE">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" 
  language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" processorArchitecture="x86" 
  xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            
  	 <WindowsDeploymentServices>
              <Login>
                 <Credentials>
                  	<Domain>****</Domain>
                       	<Username>****</Username>
                       	<Password>****</Password>
                 </Credentials>
                 </Login>
              <ImageSelection>
                 <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
                 <InstallTo>
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                 </InstallTo>
              </ImageSelection>
           </WindowsDeploymentServices>
  
  	 <DiskConfiguration>
              <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
              	<Disk wcm:action="add">
                    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                    <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
  		  <CreatePartitions> 
                      <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
  			<Order>1</Order>
              		<Type>Primary</Type>
              		<Size>3072</Size>
           	    </CreatePartition>
                      <CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
              		<Order>2</Order>
  	    		<Type>Primary</Type>
              		<Extend>true</Extend>
           	    </CreatePartition>
        		  </CreatePartitions>
                    <ModifyPartitions>
  		     <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
  			<Order>1</Order>
  			<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
                          <Letter>C</Letter>
  			<Format>NTFS</Format>
                          <Active>true</Active>
  		     </ModifyPartition>
  		     <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
  			<Order>2</Order>
  			<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
                          <Letter>D</Letter>
  			<Format>NTFS</Format>
  			<Active>false</Active>
                       </ModifyPartition>
                    </ModifyPartitions>
              </Disk>
           </DiskConfiguration>
  
           <ImageInstall>
      	     <DataImage wcm:action="add">
  		<Credentials>
                  	<Domain>****</Domain>
                       	<Username>****</Username>
                       	<Password>****</Password>
                  </Credentials>
                  <InstallFrom>
  		  <Path>\\ENGImageServer\reminst\WinPEForRestore.wim</Path>
  		  <MetaData wcm:action="add">
                          <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key>
                          <Value>WinPEForRestore</Value>
                    </MetaData>
          	</InstallFrom>
  		<InstallTo>
              	    <DiskID>0</DiskID>
              	    <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
          	</InstallTo>
      	     </DataImage>
  	 </ImageInstall> 
  
        </component>
     </settings>
  </unattend> 
  

  FYI, the image I am deploying is a Windows XP Embedded .wim image I created with ImageX. The DataImage is a custom WinPE image that I also want to deploy on to an active partition. Please provide any comment/suggestions that you have. Any help is greatly appreciated. 
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