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why did you have to pay to get it?

 

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I had to sign up to audible

 

yeah you have to sign up, but shouldnt have to pay anything as its a 30 day free trial and you get one free audiobook during the trial it said to me.

how are you getting on with your studies?

 

nope made my pay...

 

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Yeh thats what i did (but the American version for some reason)
Cancelled the subscription already though

 

Ahh, found it!

It's here:

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pfft should of looked harder lol.. oh well...

Im currently on chapter 5 of my book which is all about ImageX / Sysprep / DISM / WDS and even though ive used sysprep and WDS im still finding some of the topics are sinking in very slowly. Going to re-setup my home lab from scratch using these technologies tonight

 

I will be trying that myself tonight, if the mrs lets me... last night she was kicking & screaming at me studying, oh what a joy life can be lol

 

Hows your lab setup?

 

vmware player, two VMs, one being Server 2008 r2, the other Win 7 ultimate.

what about yours?

 

HP Microserver with ESXI.
3 VM's - 1 x S2k8R2 2 x Win7 Ult

 

I have just got the VMs running on my home pc... as and when i get more in to the certs I may look at a HP Microserver also as I know they have been mentioned on this forum a few times.

Tonight I am going to take a copy of my win7 ult vm with an image and then try to take this .iso and create another VM from this.

 

wouldnt it be a .wim image rather than an iso?

 

sorry yes of course it would be, it's been a long day without any studying and I desperately need to get back to those sections of securing the image with Imagex

 

I was about to post a message to say that when trying to mount the install.wim in to SIM and then guess what, it starts to work again... typical, oh well, must carry on.

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attached my xml answer file, the setup is not seeing it... i have woken up very tired today, and my head is not working so I know its going to be something simple like telling it where to find the answer file. or does all look ok?

 

I'm not at a computer to verify your answer file, but it needs to be called autounattend.xml. then placed on a flash drive. The install will look for it automatically.

If your doing this and its still not working make sure its configured correctly. Go into SIM load everything including the answer file and check the verify button. This will check for errors. You will probably get some warning but only be concerned if you get errors.

 

looks ok to me. Are you building this on a physical machine or through a VM?

you may want to remove the product key on here though

 

good point, i have removed the attachment so that the product key cannot be seen, to be honest though it was just a random string i had typed in so was never going to progress.

I created the .wim in a VM

 

Are you deploying the wim to a vm? could it be that the vm cant see the USB stick?