WAIK (Windows 7) Installing the Supplement for Windows 7 SP1
Nov17

WAIK (Windows 7) Installing the Supplement for Windows 7 SP1

KB ID 0000450  Problem I’ve been doing some prep work with WDS this week for a client, (I’ve covered Deploying Windows 7 with WDS before). So I went to check if there was a new WAIK as Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have had a Service Pack 1 released since last time I deployed windows 7 in bulk. And sure enough, there is an update. (Though the update is for WindowsPE Not the SIM tools I would be using). The Windows®...

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Error – Windows SIM was unable to generate a catalog
Nov17

Error – Windows SIM was unable to generate a catalog

KB ID 0000449 Problem Seen while SIM attempts to create a catalog file from a Windows image (.wim) file. This problem occurs if you are trying to create a catalog from from an x86 (32 bit) image, on a machine that is running a x64 bit version of the WAIK. Solution 1. Instead of trying to create a catalog file, you can use the one from the install DVD. 2. You will find the catalog file (with a .clg extension) on the DVD in the sources...

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WDS  Deploying Windows  Part 3: Carry Out an Unattended Deployment
Nov17

WDS Deploying Windows  Part 3: Carry Out an Unattended Deployment

KB ID 0000738 Problem In part two we built our reference machine and took an image of it using WDS. Now to automate the deployments we need to create some unattended answer files, these will answer all the questions that the Windows 8 machines will ask while they are building. We will take those files and import them into the WDS server we configured in part one. Finally to make sure everything is working we will deploy Windows 8....

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