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Setting date format in unattended Windows deployment

Our organization would like to use the ISO date format (known in Windows as yyyy-MM-dd). I've configured this in our image. When I deploy the image, it replaces the date format with the default for the locale in unattend.xml. As far as I could…
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Unattended Net-install Ubuntu over Wifi with user-supplied network info

Is there a way to change the Ubuntu Ubiquity installation to not continue without an internet connection? I have created a preseed file that automated the entire installation process including assigning the wep key using the string d-i…
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Unattended Linux installation from PXE using IPMI

This is what I have: Kickstart server with multiple Linux distros on it. Multiple Supermicro server machines I'm connecting using IPMI. What I need: I need some way to run unattended installation of the particular Linux distro on particular server…
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Adding Unattended.xml Files to Hyper-V Powershell Creation?

As of right now I have a Powershell 3.0 Script Provisioning and Creating Servers. What I want to do is add an Unattended.xml to take it a step further (So I wouldn't have to get on and click next/choose disk/etc..)+ for the windows installation, How…
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FreeBSD 9 unattended installation: how to perform?

That is, like you do with kickstart on Redhat or autoyast in SuSE or jumpstart in Solaris? The OS docs do not seem to answer that simple question.
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Autounattended.xml & GPT partitions

We are trying to setup an unattended install of windows 7 to a gpt partition on a Lenovo U410, which has UEFI bios. This webpage outlines how to format the disk for GPT. If add the default configuration, from the page, to the autounattended.xml file…
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automatically bring up a new virtual machine using a sysprep vhd in hyper-v

i have a VHD which has been sysprepped (it was created on Hyper-V itself), and i have the answer file too generated by sysprep. now i need to bring up a new VM using Hyper-V which will use the above generated VHD. When i bring up the VM it brings up…
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Windows Unattended: Running a program from the OS boot drive and not "C:" drive

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715408.aspx for FirstLogonCommand, how do I specify a CommandLine for the OS boot drive and not just use "C:" like the examples do. The OS boot drive might not be "C:". Update: I am using C++ to write…
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Windows Unattended: Hide the "Windows Updates are Disabled For This Computer" Message?

In autounattend.xml I can set 3 to disable automatic updates. However, after installing, Windows still complains loudly that updates are disabled. By manually checking disable updates the message does go away. But how…
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How do you make the Windows Components option appear in Setup Manager?

Supposedly there is a "Windows Components" option under Advanced Settings when you run the Setup Manager (included in the \Tools\Deploy.cab from a Windows 2003 CD). I can't get this to show up. Is there a special trick? Here is a screenshot of what…
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What is the unattend.txt entry to install DFS Replication Diagnostic and Configuration Tools?

I'm trying to make an unattend.txt-style file to use with sysocmgr.exe to verify certain Windows 2003 R2 components are uninstalled. I've been able to find most of them, but I can't find any reference to the proper [Components] entry for "DFS…
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How do I disable network location windows after unattended installation?

after I deployed an unattended windows 7 installation to a client, the network location windows still pops up even though I set the XML settings to "work"
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Debian/Ubuntu: Enabling "dist-upgrade" behavior for unattended-upgrades?

We've got a customized distribution of Ubuntu, a repository with some custom packages and we run unattended-upgrades on a number of systems. What we want to be able to do is supply an update of one of our packages which might have a new dependency…
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Unattended-upgrades can't update itself: SIGUSR1 received, will stop

We use "unattended-upgrades" on ubuntu xenial. Since a few days "uu" can't update itself: Manual run: unattended-upgrades -d Message: ...pkg 'powermgmt-base' not in allowed origin... My…
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Set static TCP port in SQL Server unattended installation

I have an unattended installation of SQL Server 2016 using the .INI answer file. In my answer file, I enable TCP like this: ; Specify 0 to disable or 1 to enable the TCP/IP protocol. TCPENABLED="1" Once the installation is finished, I also create…
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