Autounattended.xml - Windows 2016 - Forced to Select OS

Question

_{Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:06 PM}

Hi

I've got previous experience automating windows installs before (desktop and server) but I'm stumped with this one issue with 2016.  

I can't seem to automate the OS selection window, This one...

< not able to upload images but its the OS selection windows within the windows setup >

Here is my code snippet from my Autounattended.xml 

I've tried using /image/name & /image/index

<ImageInstall>

    <OSImage>

        <InstallFrom>

            <MetaData wcm:action="add">

                <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key>

                <Value>Windows Server 2016 Standard (Desktop Experience)</Value>

            </MetaData>

        </InstallFrom>               

        <InstallTo>

            <DiskID>0</DiskID>

            <PartitionID>2</PartitionID>

        </InstallTo>

    </OSImage>

</ImageInstall>

I used dism to confirm the image name

my iso is 

SW_DVD9_Win_Svr_STD_Core_and_DataCtr_Core_2016_64Bit_English_-3_MLF_X21-30350.ISO

SHA256          36B60C31CAFA2D488FE5D842D1FFBA623381F5E9F70E9359B3AA05282C9D232D

Anyone else seem this or can offer a share of what you use in your unattended file?

Thanks

Gary

All replies (5)

_{Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:52 AM}

Hi Gary,

I suggest you use <Key>/image/index</Key> instead of Name to specify the index number of the image to install to see whether it works.

More information for you:

Key

/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/microsoft-windows-setup-imageinstall-dataimage-installfrom-metadata-key

Best Regards,

Amy

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_{Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:55 AM}

Hi,

Are there any updates at the moment?

Best Regards,

Amy

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_{Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:10 PM}

Hi Amy,

Was there a resolution for this? Neither /IMAGE/NAME nor /IMAGE/INDEX works for me. This was with /IMAGE/INDEX. 

            <ImageInstall>
                <OSImage>
                    <InstallTo>
                        <DiskID>0</DiskID>
                        <PartitionID>3</PartitionID>
                    </InstallTo>
                    <InstallFrom>
                        <MetaData wcm:action="add">
                            <Value>0</Value>
                            <Key> /IMAGE/INDEX</Key>
                        </MetaData>
                    </InstallFrom>
                </OSImage>
            </ImageInstall>

Thanks,

Larry

_{Sunday, April 8, 2018 9:46 PM}

I was able to get that working with /IMAGE/INDEX. The issue for me was that I had passed an index that was not valid. I had to go into the image to figure out the correct index.

_{Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:40 PM}

Paying it forward because your post put me on the right path to find the answer. Here's the correct syntax guidelines:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/microsoft-windows-setup-imageinstall-dataimage-installfrom

For choosing your Image selection you can use either one of these options:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/microsoft-windows-setup-imageinstall-dataimage-installfrom-metadata-key

Finally, to get your respective Name, Description, or Index values from an install ISO, you'll use dism and point it to your install media for a list of all the respective versions included on your media using this command:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/dism-image-management-command-line-options-s14#get-imageinfo

For some reason the /get-imageinfo cmd doesn't yield the results you'd want, you'll use /get-wiminfo instead. Here is the full command I used that retrieved all the image versions from a vanilla Window 10 1809 ISO:

Dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:<Path to Install.wim on your ISO>

This will give you all the respective attributes for each image.