Windows 7 features off via sccm

[trilili360]

Hi everybody,

 

At first, many thanks for this very nice forum, it's really usefull for it work and i'm glad to join you.

 

Unfortunatelly, my first post will be for a problem that i'm encountering.

 

Using SCCM, i've deployed windows 7 pro using a create and capture sequence, all this part is OK.

 

I've then importing the WIM image created with success and can deploy this image without any problems.

 

I tried to create an answer file using Windows System Image Manager and apply this file to my image, but something goes wrong with this.

 

All settings are applied successfully on the deployed image, except for windows components that i would like to turn off.

 

I've added package/foundation to my unattend.xml using WSIM, the options i set are :

 

action : remove

permanencetype : removable

 

windows features selections :

media playback : enabled

printingxpsservice : enabled

tabletpcoc : enabled

searchenginclient : enabled (This is the most important for me, i would like to turn off/uninstall windows search features)

 

My xml file looks like this :

 

....

<servicing>

<package action="remove">

<assemblyidentity name="Microsoft-windows-foundation-package" .....

<selection name="searchengine-client-package" state="true" />

 

NB: i type it manually, not a copy/paste, this is for my example.

 

Anyone here know why my components are still installed when i deploy the wim image with the xml applied on it ?

All other settings are applied successfully.

 

Many thanks in advance.

[Lucid]

Are you using that .XML file with your "create and capture sequence" when you initially capture the .WIM file?

 

It's been awhile since I've had to tweak ours, but I think you have to capture an image based on the original Windows installation media, create your .XML file, and then add that to the task sequence and capture a second image.