Today I was thinking of creating a sort of “master” script for MDT implementation, that would install and configure MDT2010 unattendedly. So ofcourse, my first order of business was installing all the prerequisites unattendedly… and that’s where the trouble started…. Microsoft does not support installing the WAIK via the well known /qb-! or /qn switches… because of the EULA you have to accept. I found this great article by Richard Smith on the deployment guys blog. Unfortunately for me… my script will be running under a system account (SCCM)… which means no UI at all… so the Auto-IT method didn’t quite do it for me…
So I decided to go old school, whip out my favourite MSI editing tool: Orca and create a transform that removes the Full UI requirement.
Now all you have to do is: msiexec /i waikx86.msi TRANSFORMS=waik.mst /qn and voila… fully unattended WAIK installation…
Disclaimer: This is very much NOT supported by Microsoft… so use at your own risk.
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