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Unattended Installation of Windows. Components. Hack #67. Here’s a simple way you can add or remove system components when. deploying Windows 2000 and later …

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Mitch Tulloch
100 Industrial-Strength
Tips & Tools
WINDOWS
SERVER
HACKS224 | Chapter 7, Deployment
#67 Unattended Installation of Windows Components
HACK
H A C K
#67
Unattended Installation of Windows
Components Hack #67
Here’s a simple way you can add or remove system components when
deploying Windows 2000 and later.
If you’re responsible for administering a large number of computers, you
appreciate methods of automating common administrative tasks. A need to
add or remove individual system components might result from a change in
corporate policy, discovery of security vulnerability, or simply a newly
emerged business need. Using sneakernet for such tasks might take considerable
amount of time.
Fortunately, Microsoft provides a way to accomplish this task in an unattended
way. Windows 2000 and XP contain the SYSOCMGR.EXE file in the
%systemroot%system32 folder. When executed, this command-line utility
analyzes the content of two files: sysoc.inf (the existing configuration file,
located in %systemroot%inf folder) and a specially formatted text file
(which you can give an arbitrary name) that contains a listing of components
to be added or removed.
The sysoc.inf file is used by Windows when running the Add/Remove Programs
applet in the Control Panel. It’s format…