[WDS not using Unattend.xml]

Hi everybody,

 

Here is My scenario, I have WDS running on a Server 2008 R2 Machine, and have been succesfully imaging XP machines for a while now.

 

I am trying to setup a Windows 7 amd64 image on it, and it doesn't appear to like my unattend.xml, ie, it doesn't get the language options that I have set in the unattend,.xml, it doesn't automatically load the right image off WDS, which is also specified in the unattend.xml etc.

 

The thing that I think may be causing the problem is that the Boot image I am using in WDS is the x86 boot image that we have been using to image the XP machines.

 

Do I need to create an amd64 boot image for it to recognise the amd64 commands in the unattend.xml?

 

The Windows 7 image itself works fine, but for simplicity sake, because I'm going to have to do over 100 of these in the coming months, I would prefer to make it and unattended installation.

 

This has been driving me nuts the last couple of days.

 

Edit, here is my WDSclientunattend.xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">

<settings pass="windowsPE">

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<DiskConfiguration>

<Disk wcm:action="modify">

<ModifyPartitions>

<ModifyPartition wcm:action="modify">

<Active>true</Active>

<Extend>false</Extend>

<Format>NTFS</Format>

<Label>SysVol1</Label>

<Order>1</Order>

<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>

</ModifyPartition>

</ModifyPartitions>

<DiskID>0</DiskID>

<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>

</Disk>

<WillShowUI>onerror</WillShowUI>

</DiskConfiguration>

<WindowsDeploymentServices>

<ImageSelection>

<InstallImage>

<Filename>XT3_WIM.wim</Filename>

<ImageGroup>Consultant_Laptop</ImageGroup>

<ImageName>XT3_WIM</ImageName>

</InstallImage>

<InstallTo>

<DiskID>0</DiskID>

<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>

</InstallTo>

</ImageSelection>

<Login>

<Credentials>

<Domain>Domain.com</Domain>

<Password>Password</Password>

<Username>Username</Username>

</Credentials>

</Login>

</WindowsDeploymentServices>

</component>

</settings>

</unattend>

 

-Mark