Deployment and Imaging Group

I am running into a problem with the autogenerated unattend file for scripted OS installation. I don't know if its a bug or not the problem that is causing us is that the Unattend Autogenerated Xml file that gets created for Scripted OS Installation has the Timezone to Mountain Time causing our computers to have the wrong Timezone. We are a school districted located in the same Time Zone Pacific. When we look at the Managed Computers through the console it shows the computers Timezone to be Pacific Time zone.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Same here. The UI doesnt offer any setting.

As I try to avoid modifing the system xml i just run a task after the OS deployment.

Windows 7 has a built in "tzutil.exe" (also available for Vista and 2008, no clue about other OS)

Example:

TZUTIL /s "Pacific Standard Time"

We provide custom unattend.xml files since the autogenerated ones can get interesting.

I found where the files for the autogenerated located

\\<NSSERVER>\NSCap\bin\Win32\X86\Deployment\SOI\AnswerFile

Inside there I was able to match up where the Unattended that gets copied to the client in WINPE enviroment.

Examining the file where the <Timezone> Tag is and it shows it Mountain Time.

I then changed it to @timezone but found out that token doesnt exist or it might be hidden. Just out of curiosity sake I ended up modifying the file and ran another SOI and checked out the Unattend that gets copied to the X:

Didnt change Still showed Mountain Standard Time.

Searching for Generic Tokens lead me to this link

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/tokens-deployment-solution-7x

"

Another list of tokens are to be used only in unattended files ( Mainly for Scripted OS installation, Imaging):

1.       @timezone

2.       @userName

3.       @domainou

4.       @compName

5.       @license

6.       @tcpIP

7.       @adapter

8.       @ProcessArchitecture

9.       @microsoftWindowsTCPIP

10.   @microsoftWindowsDNSClient

11.   @microsoftWindowsNetBT

12.   @microsoftWindowsUnattendedJoin

13.   @identification

14.   @NetCardAddress

15.   @AutoMode

16.   @AutoUsers

Generic/common tokens for Symantec Management Platform are at Symantec Management Console > Settings > All Settings > Notification Server> Task Settings."

So I went to that location under tokens policy and nothing listed above were found as a created/generic Token itself.

Thank you for the help and giving me insight that it is just not us who is experiencing the problem :)

Can I use WAIK to create this or is there another recommended way of creating the xml file?

Use WSIM from within WAIK.  You don't want to modify unattend.xml using a text editor because this lets you do stupid things, like make typographical errors or enter invalid choices for time zones, etc.

If you want to use variables, you will need to download DS 7.1 Samples and use the tokenize script to modify unattend.xml and parse it out as a second unattend.xml.  You would replace "Mountain Time" with @timezone, for example, just as you might replace COMPNAME with %COMPNAME%.

This is now a known issue:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH189664