🏄 Win-11-unattended

Create config files for unattended Windows 11 Home installations.

🧾 Sources

YouTube:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTdRZNqODY

GitHub:

• https://github.com/memstechtips/UnattendedWinstall

Web:

• https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
• https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/software-download/windows11

💡 How to

A generic template for the autounattend.xml file was generated with the help of schneegans.de and checked in as autounattend_template.xml.

Some values in the template are provided as placeholders. To use the template, create a file named autounattend.xml, copy the templates content into it and fill out all placeholders with their actual value for your Windows 11 installation.

Next, copy the autounattend.xml file inside the root folder of your windows installation media drive and you are ready to go (see image_1).

Placeholder	Purpose
PhAdminAccountName	Initial admin account to create.
PhAdminAccountPassword	Password for the initial admin account.
PhWifiSid	Wifi SID to connect to.
PhWifiPassword	Password for the Wifi to connect to.

📖 Versioning

Versioning is done by creating annotated git tags (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging).

# list existing tags
git tag

# create a new annotated tag
git tag -a "vX.Y.Z" -m "Message"

# delete a local tag
git tag -d <tagname>

# delete a tag from remote
git push origin --delete <tagname>

# push tags to remote
git push origin --tags