Note: The information in this section pertains to the following Windows operating systems:
If you are publishing a .WIM
image of one of these versions of Windows, you must:
Media\client\default
folder on the HPCA media. This folder is only required the first time you publish a .WIM
file or if you want to publish an updated agent package. The HPCA agent will be published as a separate package, which ensures that all future deployments of your .WIM
files will automatically receive the latest agent available.
If you are deploying using Windows Setup, you must be able to access the \sources
folder from the Windows installation media (used to obtain or create the .WIM
file) on the device where you are publishing the image.
.WIM
files.The Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 and Windows 8 must be installed on the device where you are publishing the image. This is a Core installation prerequisite. See the HP Client Automation Enterprise Installation and Upgrade Guide for more information.
.WIM
, copy the file to the device where you are publishing the image..WIM
file using the Image Preparation Wizard, copy filename.WIM
and filename.edm
from the HPCA server's \upload
directory (<InstallDir>\Data\OSManagerServer\upload
) to the device where you are publishing the image. If your file was spanned, copy filename.swm
, filename2.swm
, and so on from the \upload
directory. The publishing process will rename these files automatically to filename.WIM
, filename.002
, filename.003
, and so on.
The answer file that HPCA provides is called unattend.xml
. Each operating system and architecture (for example, 32-bit or 64-bit) has its own unattend.xml
file. The files are located in subdirectories of:
<InstallDir>\Data\OSManagerServer\capture-conf
If you want to use the unattend.xml
file that HP provides, you must modify it for your environment before you run the Publisher. At a minimum, you must specify the ProductKey for the image that you are publishing. You may also want to modify other settings in this file—for example, the TimeZone and the RegisteredOrganization. See Customizing the Windows Answer File for details.
Caution: Confirm that all files and folders in the directory are not set to read-only. If they are set to read-only, the image may not deploy.