Set objShell = CreateObject “Wscript.Shell”
objShell.Run(“powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -file c:\windows\system32\sysprep\domain-join.ps1″)

When executing it, I get this:

Line 1
Char: 29
Error: Invalid Character
Code: 800A0408

What gives, any ideas?

- settings pass=”generalize”
- component name=”Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP” processorArchitecture=”x86″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
SkipRearm1/SkipRearm
/component
/settings
- settings pass=”specialize”
- component name=”Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup” processorArchitecture=”x86″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
CopyProfilefalse/CopyProfile
TimeZoneCentral Standard Time/TimeZone
ShowWindowsLivefalse/ShowWindowsLive
ProductKeyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/ProductKey
/component
- component name=”Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin” processorArchitecture=”x86″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
- Identification
- Credentials
Domainxxx/Domain
PasswordXXXXXXXXX/Password
UsernameXxxxxxxxx/Username
/Credentials
JoinDomainxxx.xxxx.xxx/JoinDomain
DebugJoinfalse/DebugJoin
/Identification
/component
- component name=”Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX” processorArchitecture=”x86″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
SkipAutoActivationfalse/SkipAutoActivation
/component
/settings
- settings pass=”oobeSystem”
- component name=”Microsoft-Windows-International-Core” processorArchitecture=”x86″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
InputLocaleen-us/InputLocale
SystemLocaleen-us/SystemLocale
UILanguageen-us/UILanguage
UserLocaleen-us/UserLocale
/component
- component name=”Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup” processorArchitecture=”x86″ publicKeyToken=”31bf3856ad364e35″ language=”neutral” versionScope=”nonSxS” xmlns:wcm=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
- AutoLogon
- Password
ValueSwBlAG4AcwBpAG4AZwB0ADAAbgBQAGEAcwBzAHcAbwByAGQA/Value
PlainTextfalse/PlainText
/Password
Username xxxxxxx/Username
LogonCount1/LogonCount
Enabledtrue/Enabled
/AutoLogon
- OOBE
HideEULAPagetrue/HideEULAPage
HideWirelessSetupInOOBEtrue/HideWirelessSetupInOOBE
NetworkLocationWork/NetworkLocation
ProtectYourPC3/ProtectYourPC
SkipMachineOOBEtrue/SkipMachineOOBE
/OOBE
RegisteredOrganizationxxxxxx xxxxxxx/RegisteredOrganization
RegisteredOwner /
/component
/settings

Here is my xml file…

Please Please help.

-
-
1

-
-
false
Central Standard Time
false
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

-
-
-
oww
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx

xxx.xxx.xxx
false

-
false

-
-
en-us
en-us
en-us
en-us

-
-
-
SwBlAG4AcwBpAG4AZwB0ADAAbgBQAGEAcwBzAHcAbwByAGQA
false

localsysop
1
true

-
true
true
Work
3
true

XXXXXXXXXX

%Windir%\Panther\UnattendGC\Setupact.log

Gary can you expand on the quote below

Great work, thanks for this guide and also thanks to Erik Sundin for the extra scripts to join domain and clean up the files. I now have a working sysprep that only asks for a computer name. Perfect for our company.

I cant get this to work at all.
In my Unattend.xml i have cscript //b c:\windows\system32\sysprep\domain-join.vbs
I have copied the domian-join.vbs to c:\windows\system32\sysprep but the computer never joins the domain

Cheers

Stewart

I do have a few issue though;

I have built a Windows 7 Enterprise installation with all my applications and drivers installed ready to be deployed to our staff. I have created an unattended.xml file through the WAIK tools and defined all of my preferences and fully automated the installation however, when I seal the installation by running sysprep.exe /unattend:unattend.xml, the PC re-seals and restarts and fully automates the install but when I log in, the display driver has been uninstalled and has defaulted to the windows default one :S, Is there anyway I can stop this from happening and keeping the driver I installed before the sysprep?

Also I would like the PC to recognize the LAN network it finds an address from first to be a “Work” network by default, What is the procedure to do this?

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work
Zaccy D

Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas?

ComputerName * ComputerName
CopyProfile true CopyProfile
ShowWindowsLive false ShowWindowsLive
TimeZone Central Standard Time TimeZone

true
true

Amy I think brian’s other article will help you out: http://blog.brianleejackson.com/copy-taskbar-icons-windows-7-sysprep

Anyway, next question…

I having one of my images I rebuilt from scratching using the same sysprep.xml file throwing an error on [specialize] at [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]. I only have the following under that context:

*
true
false
Central Standard Time

Could it be having problems copying my profile? If so, what could most likely be causing the hangup?