Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Unattended Installation
Unattended installations can be helpful when deploying a large number of desktops and servers that have the same hardware model and specifications. An unattend file is simply a file created that answers all the questions asked during a manual installation. Unattended configuration files were historically referred to as answer files. Options in some unattended answer files can include accepting the end-user licensing agreement, entering a volume license product key, choosing to format the drive, specifying a particular partition or volume size for the operating system, and much more. This is now referred to as an unattended installation file.
Windows Deployment Server performs some of the tasks of the unattended installation, ...
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