![]() You fill in the ‘answers’ in the Properties pane on the right for each component. You right click on a component and choose a configuration pass to add to in the Answer File pane in the middle. On the right there’s a Windows Image pane where you have a list of components. Windows SIM (part of the WAIK) is used to build answer files. ![]() Install it on your technician computer accept all defaults when installingĬopy the contents of your Windows 7 DVD to the local hard of your Technician Computer disk e.g. Install WAIKĭownload the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 from Microsoft (1.7GB) All you need to ‘build’ a technician computer is to install the Windows Automated Installation Kit covered in the first step below. Note: The term ‘technician computer’ refers to a computer that is capable of building Windows PE images and answer files (and much more). Technician Computer (to build the answer file) Note that we will be using Fog to give the computer a proper hostname at the time of deployment, which will be covered in a later post. Set copyprofile to ‘true’ – to copy the Administrator user profile to the default user profile (covered in a later post).Enable the built-in administrator account.Sets Windows Updates to Recommended (all updates).Set the keyboard and language to English and the Timezone to GMT Standard Time. ![]() Specifically, the goal is to build an answer file to meet the following requirements: This is the first post illustrating the process and settings required to build an answer file to completely automate Windows 7 installation. I want to document the process of building an answer file and preparing and sysprep’ing a reference computer as a way of noting down my findings in exploring my interests in Windows deployment.
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