KACE Product Support

You can use an unattend.xml file with sysprep to do a lot of these things. The section you want is under the <settings pass="oobeSystem"> section.

<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<SkipMachineOOBE>false</SkipMachineOOBE>
<SkipUserOOBE>false</SkipUserOOBE>
<ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
</OOBE>

If you use the K2000, you can create a new scripted install and have it create the answer file for you, and then steal the XML file to modify it later as you wish. Otherwise, I believe you can download and use the Windows System Image Manager.

My suspicion would be that you could also find registry entries for these, and tell your script to import a key.

Thanks! Windows Update is now "on", but at first boot to desktop it is still prompting to select a network (I had already set the <NetworkLocation> to Work)
Is there any way to automate the reboot after the post install task? I am having to do it manually, in order to get to a domain logon.

I have tried EVERYTHING suggested to remove the prompt to select network location - and get it everytime I deploy a Win7 image.
If you do not respond to the message it does go away and does not reappear after the next reboot.
Perhaps a WMI script to force a restart?
Thanks,
Netty

Change

<SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
<SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>

to

<SkipMachineOOBE>false</SkipMachineOOBE>
<SkipUserOOBE>false</SkipUserOOBE>

and you won't be asked for the network location anymore.

If you have to set these to true, then contact support and ask for me, I have a powershell script that will change it as a post-installation task.

edit: I had them listed backwards, sorry.