Interested in unattended install? How about reviewing my 67 page doc?

EDIT - April 20, 2020 - Uploaded an updated version of the doc today.

EDIT - March 14, 2020

I've completely rewritten the topic on injecting Windows updates. This came about because I had previously only concerned myself with updating the install.wim file. I was informed that there was no need to update other parts of the Windows distribution. That advice was wrong. In the revised doc, I describe how to update other components but the procedure makes this optional. You can still update only the install.wim if you prefer to do so.

This new info comes as a result of my researching a new type of update for Windows that I saw on the Microsoft Update Catalog called a "Windows Dynamic Update". For those interested, that info can be found here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...es/ba-p/982477

END EDIT

Over the past year and a half or so, I've been working my way through a lot of material on this forum related to unattended installation of Windows. I asked a lot of questions, did a LOT of testing, wrote plenty of notes, and wrote a program to automate just about everything that I needed to maintain images for unattended installation.

My notes initially started as a rough reference to everything that I learned. Because there were a lot of things that I developed on my own or that I figured out through extensive testing and research, I thought that the information I was compiling might be of interest to others. I thought that the time might be appropriate to share the information and to get some feedback to see if there is anything that I need to clarify or change.

Note that my documentation makes heavy use of the fantastic tutorials from persons such as @Kari, @cereberus, and @Brink. I've made some significant changes to the workflow and procedures in various areas, so rather than simply link to their tutorials directly, I wrote step-by-step procedures in my documentation with my changes / additions slip-streamed in. Please see the credits section at the end of the document for links to many of the tutorials that are the basis for much of the information presented here.

Here are some of the topics covered:

Performing an unattended setup of Windows using a single answer file.
Creating a customized, syspreped Windows installation image,and preping the answer files to accomplish this.
Automating first-time logon to completely finish an unattended installation.
Creating bootable ISO images and media including a method to create boot media that includes both x86 and x64 Windows images, bootable from both BIOS and UEFI based systems - all accomplished with no third party software.
How to inject Windows updates into Windows images.
How to inject drivers into Windows images.
How to export drivers from a Windows system which can then be injected into a Windows image or installed with a single command after a clean or unattended installation on a system.

For any geeks interested in these topics, I sure would appreciate some review and feedback.

As I noted above, I've written a program to automate much of this, but this document is aimed at those who want to know how they themselves can perform these tasks manually.

Looking forward to your feedback!

- Hannes

Just downloaded it and did a quick scan. Looks good. I'll give it a try in the next week or two and see how it goes. I need a new Win 10 Pro X64 install which includes all the basic programs I normally install, plus some desktop customization and full automation. All I want to do is a single click once I boot the USB flash drive, then automation should take over and do a complete clean install of the image with a username of Owner including my apps and desktop customization.

That's the way I had it working when I did this using Kari's tutorials with more help from him and you and your tools so I'd like to do it again. Should be a good test of the documentation.

Hello @Ztruker,

Ztruker said:

Just downloaded it and did a quick scan. Looks good. I'll give it a try in the next week or two and see how it goes.

Did you try this?

Sorry, no, been sick (not Covid-19) and just getting back to using the computer. Maybe tonight or tomorrow.