--- Forwarded Message from Chris Meyer <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:51:42 -0500
>From: Chris Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
>User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201)
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Subject: Re: #8137.3 (!) Problem imaging/sysprep - Arabic, Hebrew,
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>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
My apologies, I should have been a little more clear in the previous
note: when you sysprep a machine, there's a folder that gets put in the
root drive (usually C:) called "sysprep". Inside that folder is a file
called "sysprep.inf" that contains parameters for the configuration
process once a computer has been imaged (basically it's the Windows
setup process all over again). The file should start something like:
;SetupMgrTag
[Unattended]
OemSkipEula=Yes
InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386
And go on from there. The section we're interested in is the one that
looks like:
[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword= *
EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
AutoLogon=No
AutoLogonCount=0
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1
These are the settings for the unattended install, where you can pretty
much walk away and let the machine fill in all the fields for you
instead of putting in the Windows product key, network settings, et c.
by hand for each computer.
The first time you run sysprep you'll need to set the OEMSkipRegional
value to 0 so that the configuration process stops at that point and
lets you set up the regional settings during installation--all the
necessary files will be copied over from the get-go in this case instead
of having to be installed later. I'm not sure why it makes a difference
having the files installed at this point versus after installing
Windows, but it seems to.
After the setup process is complete, go right back and make a new
C:\sysprep folder (the old one gets deleted after running sysprep.exe)
and this time set the OEMSkipRegional key to 1. The language settings
should stay as you configured them during the previous configuration
session, and this way you won't have to go to each computer and
configure it manually.
If there's anything you'd like me to elaborate on, please let me
know--and good luck!
-Chris Meyer
Programmer/Analyst
Yale University Center for Language Study
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>> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:48:12 -0500
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>> References: <[log in to unmask]>
>> In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Subject: Re: #8137.2 (!) Problem imaging/sysprep - Arabic, Hebrew,
>
> Hey there,
> Could you give me a little more detailed info on that....It sounds
> like it would work, but I'm a bit lost in your description. When you
> talk about syspreping it twice. Are you using the setupmanager that
> creates the script you are talking about with the [GUIUnattended] or
> are you talking about the sysprep function itself, and if so are you
> rebooting the machine with the sysprep or are you simply telling it to
> quit and then make the changes and then run it again. Sorry, though my
> knowledge is decent when it comes to ghost, I am not to the point where
> I have learned it in and out. Sincerely,
> Kaleb Mercer
> Senior IT Admin
> ModernLanguages Dept.
> Florida State Univeristy
>
>>> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:37:17 -0500
>>> From: Chris Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
>>> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201)
>>> To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: #8137.1 (!) Problem imaging/sysprep - Arabic, Hebrew, Russian
>>> References: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> We've found that you may have to run sysprep twice to get the language
>> settings to stick:
>>
>> The first time the OEMSkipRegional key under the [GuiUnattended] section
>> should be set to 0, and when it hits that part of the post-sysprep
>> process configure your language settings as you wish.
>>
>> The second time the OEMSkipRegional key can be set to 1 so that it skips
>> that section along with the others, and it will retain all the language
>> settings as you configured them during the previous post-sysprep sequence.
>>
>> We've used this process even for nonstandard language settings: a
>> third-party Devanagari IME and a custom phonetic Russian keyboard,
>> although the Russian keyboard still isn't reliably imaged.
>>
>> -Chris Meyer
>> Programmer/Analyst
>> Yale University Center for Language Study
>>
>>
>> LLTI-Editor wrote:
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>>>> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:58:25 -0500
>>>> To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> From: "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subject: Problem imaging/sysprep - Arabic, Hebrew, Russian
>>> Hi,
>>> we are trying to create an image for our labs,
>>> and have run into the following problem:
>>>
>>> OS Windows XP pro
>>> The pc to be imaged runs perfectly with all the installed languages.
>>> After the use of Windows Sysprep, the system
>>> loses the Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian language
>>> settings in the language bar - Chinese and
>>> Japanese and the other language settings are fine.
>>> The options that were there prior to the sysprep are no longer there.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>> Wolfgang E. Adolph
>>> Fac. Coord. for Computer Issues
>>> Department of Mod. Lang. & Linguistics - DIF 316
>>> Florida State University
>>> Tallahassee, FL 32306
>>> (850) 644-8192/681-0635
>>> (850) 644-0524 fax
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