I work for an MSP where my job is mainly to take the computers that we receive from Dell and reimage them. I have automated part of the setup with an answer file. Specifically the part after windows installs and it gets to the OOBE.
However, I am trying to automate it from the start of the Setup, namely where it asks which version I wish to install and lists every version of Windows 10 under the sun. Currently, my answer file looks like this:
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-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">
<TimeZone>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" 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">
<SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
<UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-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">
<UserAccounts>
<LocalAccounts>
<LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
<Name>Administrator</Name>
<DisplayName>Administrator</DisplayName>
<Group>Administrators;Power Users</Group>
</LocalAccount>
</LocalAccounts>
</UserAccounts>
<OOBE>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC>
<SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
</OOBE>
<AutoLogon>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<Username>Administrator</Username>
<LogonCount>1</LogonCount>
</AutoLogon>
</component>
</settings>
<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">
<ImageInstall>
<OSImage>
<InstallFrom>
<MetaData wcm:action="add">
<Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key>
<Value>Windows 10 Enterprise</Value>
</MetaData>
</InstallFrom>
</OSImage>
</ImageInstall>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/users/ME/desktop/test/sources/install.wim#Windows 10 Enterprise" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>
Ive tried to do it like this, which I saw on this forum somewhere:
<InstallFrom>
<MetaData wcm:action="add">
<Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key>
<Value>Windows 10 Enterprise</Value>
</MetaData>
</InstallFrom>
</OSImage>
And tried the /IMAGE/INDEX with a value of 3, as well as straight entering the Product ID for Windows 10 Enterprise and nothing seems to work so far.
Ive searched quite a bit, and I cannot find a way.
The code listed above is in a file called "unattend.xml". If I name it autounattend, it breaks everything and will not run at all.
The file is located in D:\sources$OEM$$$\Panther which is where the answer file was installed when I made the boot drive with RUFUS