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windows 2019 unattended install on kvm via libvirt can't find licence error

I'm trying to install windows server 2019 with autounattend.xml configuration on kvm via libvirt. Installation fail on dialog with sign: "Can't find microsoft software license terms" Despite there are a lot of articles with solving this error - it…
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.NET Framwork 3.5 Offline Unattended Install

I'm trying to install dotNet 3.5 on Windows 10 22H2. The target has no monitor and no access to the internet. When using the flags suggested by Microsoft /q /norestart, the package is not installed. Trying those flags on a similar machine with a…
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Debian unattended (preseed) installation, access to audio card(s)

I'm using the preseeding feature in order to shape a custom Debian 10 x64 system. Everything is happening well, except that during the late_command step, I'm running a shell script to configure and deploy miscellaneous things and I would like to be…
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Location of the log for Windows first logon commands

I have PowerShell script that's set up to run as the first logon command via the unattend.xml file. The script actually does run on the first logon but I would like to know if somewhere I can find the logs from the script execution i.e. output from…
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unattended recovery from image

I've got quite a few machines which sometimes need to be restored from an image. There's a slight problem that those machines are at different locations, don't have keyboards and sometimes don't even have displays next to them, so it's required that…
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Autounattend.xml - strange behaviour when CommandLine is long

Version: Windows 10 x64 1909 (Spanish) | Build: 18363.959 According to Microsoft, the limit of the CommandLine element is 1024 characters, but in my tests when it exceeds two hundred something characters it starts behaving strangely. Considering the…
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Automated Ubuntu 20.04 server install: How can I get hostname from DHCP server?

On older versions of Ubuntu (using the Classical Installer), I was able to populate the hostname from my DHCP server. I then passed it by using the netcfg/get_hostname= option of the kernel parameters. As of 20.04, the Classical Installer no longer…
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Unattend installation not working - "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one"

I can't seem to get an unattended installation to work it fails with: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files."
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Unattended machine join to domain

My company would like to use a Syprep image and an autounattend.xml file to deploy new machines or rebuild old ones with a USB stick. We do not want to use SCCM. I will push us to use WDS in the future but we still want to be able to do this through…
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Run batch script at first logon in Windows automated Installation

I am doing unattended Windows installation with few initialization script having setups to install like python and java. I added the script path under FirstLogonCommands as shown here FirstLogon Whenever the Windows is about to complete, the First…
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Stop nginx before APT upgrades run

How can I stop nginx before APT upgrades run in Ubuntu? We run unattended upgrades on the server and in case there is any upgrade that will interfere with nginx I would like to stop the nginx service before doing upgrades. (E.g. an upgrade of nginx…
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Which update scheme is better for an unattended Ubuntu server

I'm in a situation where I have to deploy an ubuntu server for a Client (they do not have a Sysadmin), and it will serve as an HTTP API backend for an app. The catch is that after the deployment they no longer allow me to have remote SSH access to…
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Using FirstLogonCommands in an Unattend.xml file

I apologize ahead of time for what is probably a stupid question, but I'm having a hard time figuring this out from the Microsoft Documentation…
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Secure WDS Unattended Access / Unattended.xml

Windows Server 2012 - WDS installed and configured to deploy Windows Server 2012 on several Clients. We will depoly several Windows Server 2012 Clients, each of the Clients should NOT know the initial Password of the other Clients. The WDS Server…
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Windows - multiple concurrent unattended installations

Distribution Server and Software: Debian 8 TFTP Server SAMBA Server DHCP Server Right now we use following way for windows (2012) distribution to our servers: installation task inkomming edit dhcp server (new server) auto create wim boot image…
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