Creating or Updating an Answer File Windows SIM allows you to create an answer f
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Creating or Updating an Answer File Windows SIM allows you to create an answer file to control the installation of Windows. The installation can be from a distribution share, the Windows 10 installation media, or an image you have created. Windows SIM reads the configu- rable settings for an image either directly from the image or from a catalog file.
A catalog file lists all settings and packages included in an image. The states of all the set- tings are also included in the catalog file. For example, if the image has configured the screen saver to lock the system after 10 minutes, this will be reflected in the catalog file created by scan- ning that image. Using a catalog file is faster than scanning the image directly. However, catalog files are not updated automatically. You must manually update the catalog file for an image after you update the image. The Windows 10 installation DVD includes catalog files for the versions of Windows 10 included on the DVD.
After an answer file is created, you can easily update it by opening the existing answer file with Windows SIM and modifying it. When you modify the existing answer file, Windows SIM ensures that all of the settings are still valid based on the catalog file or the image. Some of the answer file settings you may want to include for an unattended installation are listed in Table 2-3.
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Confiquration pass Setting Description windowsPE Microsoft-Windows-International-Core- The default language used for the installed operating system The default language used during Windows setup The option to accept the license agreement. WinPE UILanguage WinPE SetupUILanguage UILanguage AcceptEula ProductKey | Key OSImage InstallToAvailablePartition windowsPE Microsoft-Windows-International-Core- windowsPE Microsoft-Windows-Setup | UserData | windowsPE Microsoft-Windows-Setup | UserData | windowsPE Microsoft-Windows-Setup Imagelnstall | The Windows 10 product key used to identify the edition of Windows 10 in the WIM file The option to specify that Windows is installed to the first available partition. Alternatively, you can specify the disk and partition to install by using other settings. specialize Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup ProductKey The product key used for activation. The computer name for the Windows installation. To generate a random name, use *. The default input locale for the Windows installation. The default system locale for the Windows installation. specialize Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-International-Core | oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-International-Core | oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-International-Core | oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-International-Core| oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup | OOBE | oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setupl oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup | oobeSystem Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup TimeZone The time zone of the Windows installation ComputerName InputLocale SystemLocale UILanguage The default Ul language for the Windows installation. The default user locale for the Windows installation UserLocale The option to avoid displaying the license agreement. The user accounts that are created during installation. The password for the local Administrator account. HideEULAPage UserAccounts UserAccounts |AdministratorPasswordExplanation / Answer
An answer file is an xml file which contains definitions and values for the purpose of windows installation. In answer file we can create various setup options. These options include how to partition disks identification of windows image file and product key that can be applied. And we can also define various values related to windows installation changing user names of various accounts and display settings. Answer files are named as Unattend.xml.
The answer files are created in windows system image manager which is nothing but and image file. If an answer file contains data which is not available with windows image file, then that settings are not installed.
As listed above in the image the components of answer file contain all the settings that are applicable for installation of windows. The components like windowsPE, offline servicing, generalize,auditsystem, oobe system,audit user
WindowsPE can be used for options in installing the languages, specifying the disk partitions.
Specialize is used for changing the product key used for generating various multiple user names.
Oobe is used to specify the installation location, used for avoiding the display of license agreement, we can specify the admin passwords and time zone.
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