I have a volume license and used that to install from. I don't know if
there are any differences that would stop this approach with OEM or retail
media.

I'm not very experienced with windows scripting, and but I imagine that
several of the things I do in the unattended (join domain, set local
admins, rename pc) could be done after the install via todos.

Thoughts?

Doug
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I have a Win7 unattended going.� Well, kind of.<br><br>I boot from a USB drive with an unattended xml file on it, which does the basic install and then starts a modified &quot;apps only&quot; type of install after windows is done.<br> <br>I have to create/modify the unattended xml by hand every time - it has my computer name, domain, etc, as well as the main unattended bat file tor run.� I also create a user-pc specific .bat file that contains all of the todos for the user and pc type.<br> <br>It&#39;s been a couple of years since I set it up, and I know I ran into several problems, mainly around running scripts from a share that was in my windows domain and a computer that wasn&#39;t - or vice versa.� I created a special account in my domain to do the install with.� And I ended up breaking the pre.bat into two parts with perl being installed between them.� <br> <br>That part of my unattended xml looks like:<br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br>&lt;FirstLogonCommands&gt;<br>      &lt;SynchronousCommand wcm:action=&quot;add&quot;&gt;<br>          &lt;Order&gt;1&lt;/Order&gt;<br>
          &lt;Description&gt;Running appsonly&lt;/Description&gt;<br>          &lt;CommandLine&gt;cmd /C start /wait net use Z: \\ntinstall\install mypass /user:mydomain\myuser&lt;/CommandLine&gt;<br>      &lt;/SynchronousCommand&gt;<br>
      &lt;SynchronousCommand wcm:action=&quot;add&quot;&gt;<br>          &lt;Order&gt;2&lt;/Order&gt;<br>          &lt;Description&gt;Running appsonly&lt;/Description&gt;<br>          &lt;CommandLine&gt;cmd /C z:\bin\pre1.bat&lt;/CommandLine&gt;<br>
      &lt;/SynchronousCommand&gt;<br>      &lt;SynchronousCommand wcm:action=&quot;add&quot;&gt;<br>          &lt;Order&gt;3&lt;/Order&gt;<br>          &lt;Description&gt;Running appsonly&lt;/Description&gt;<br>          &lt;CommandLine&gt;cmd /C Z:\scripts\perl.bat&lt;/CommandLine&gt;<br>
      &lt;/SynchronousCommand&gt;<br>      &lt;SynchronousCommand wcm:action=&quot;add&quot;&gt;<br>          &lt;Order&gt;4&lt;/Order&gt;<br>          &lt;Description&gt;Running appsonly&lt;/Description&gt;<br>          &lt;CommandLine&gt;cmd /C z:\bin\pre2.bat&lt;/CommandLine&gt;<br>
      &lt;/SynchronousCommand&gt;<br>      &lt;SynchronousCommand wcm:action=&quot;add&quot;&gt;<br>          &lt;Order&gt;5&lt;/Order&gt;<br>          &lt;Description&gt;Running appsonly&lt;/Description&gt;<br>          &lt;CommandLine&gt;cmd /C z:\bin\<a href="http://todo.pl">todo.pl</a> UserSpecificFile.bat&lt;/CommandLine&gt;<br>
      &lt;/SynchronousCommand&gt;<br>      &lt;SynchronousCommand wcm:action=&quot;add&quot;&gt;<br>          &lt;Order&gt;6&lt;/Order&gt;<br>          &lt;Description&gt;Running appsonly&lt;/Description&gt;<br>          &lt;CommandLine&gt;cmd /C z:\bin\post.bat&lt;/CommandLine&gt;<br>
      &lt;/SynchronousCommand&gt;<br>&lt;/FirstLogonCommands&gt;</span><br>

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;"><span style></span></span>I tried the WinPE boot then install from a network share yesterday for the first time, and it worked great.  No PXE boot is required.<br>
</p>Here&#39;s my thoughts on how this could work:<br><br>User has to make a WinPE boot disk and boot from it.  <br>Map \\ntinstall\install to Z:<br>