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Minimizing Deployment Time
FIguRe 1-4: Congure unattended installation les in WDS.
There are several reasons why you should use Windows SIM rather than Notepad
to create your Windows Server 2008 R2 answer les. These include:
The answer le XML syntax is complicated, and you are likely to mess some-3
thing up if you do it manually. There are better uses of your time than trying
to gure out where you made a syntax error in an XML le.
Windows SIM is designed to create these les, and you’ll probably nd out 3
about automatic conguration options that you weren’t aware of when you
use the tool.
Windows SIM generates a catalog le based on the image that you are import-3
ing. This means that you will only be able to congure settings that are rel-
evant to the image for which you are creating the answer le.
Windows SIM allows you to validate your answer le, which will go some way 3
toward ensuring that the installation le you’ve created will work.
To create an answer le, perform the following general steps:
1. Open Windows System Image Manager.
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