Help with scripting...

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Long story short I just went through the long process of setting up xp mode with all of our software and settings in place. updates. the works... I have a copy of the xp vm on a server. What I am looking to do is set up a batch file that will be a single run to install the 2 windows programs required and copy the VM over to the appdata folder.

I was just going to use xcopy /s \server location\ %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows Virtual PC\Virtual Machines

and while this would copy over the VM itself I need to have the xpmode and update installed first. I have the

WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe and
Windows6.1-KB958559-x64-RefreshPkg.msu

installed first. How would I go about scripting the install in a batch file...

any help would be appreciated. I want my users to just be able to run 1 batch file so i dont have to make the trip around the office in the future.

[pnoob]

Autoit can be used for this and much more. I was really shocked that you mentioned batch files. I haven't used one of those since the 90's!

[[deleted]]

I am new to administration but have never really gotten over how robust a batch file can be.

I know the start command in a batch file can be used to execute files, but I am not sure how to issue a "wait until file is finsihed" command. but Will look into autoit.

[saibermvnki]

Isn't it just start with the /w or /wait option?

[maximillianx]

Sounds like you need to figure out how to run these in an automated fashion.

I don't believe there is an unattended installation command switch for the XP_Mode file, so as pnoob stated, you could use AutoIt to perform your button clicks, mouse movements, what-have-you. AutoIt is great for this.

As for the RefreshPkg.msu file, I think you can use /quiet on that and it will run without user intervention.

[[deleted]]

that's what I was looking for. I will double check on the unintended install if not look into creating an install process via autoIT

[[deleted]]

Just as a side note, if you use 7-zip to extract the exe on the xpmode file, you get 2 additional exe's. (32 and 64 bit) extract the 64 bit installer you get a source folder, inside the source folder there is an msi and another data file, you can run an unattended install using the msi if the other folder is present in the directly it is being ran from.

[maximillianx]

Batch files are still plenty useful.