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David Mehler

4 Jun 2011 4 Jun '11

1:43 a.m.

Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08. Thanks. Dave.

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chris hallsworth

4 Jun 4 Jun

7:47 a.m.

Hi all. I would like to know the answer to the second question as well. I have Server 2003 Standard, which enables sound by default, but not in Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. The only way to get it to start automatically is by inserting the Window-Eyes installation CD and run the installation program, which should happen automatically anyway. But not everybody has a full copy of Window-Eyes, so this won't be an ideal solution for everybody. Take care. Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird On 04/06/2011 02:43, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08.

Thanks. Dave.

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David Mehler

1:40 p.m.

HI, I can add server 2003sp2 and server 2003r2 enterprise to the not automatic sound enable category. I'd definitely like to make it do so since I still have one. Thanks. Dave. On 6/4/11, chris hallsworth wrote:

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Hi all. I would like to know the answer to the second question as well. I have Server 2003 Standard, which enables sound by default, but not in Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. The only way to get it to start automatically is by inserting the Window-Eyes installation CD and run the installation program, which should happen automatically anyway. But not everybody has a full copy of Window-Eyes, so this won't be an ideal solution for everybody. Take care.

Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird

On 04/06/2011 02:43, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08.

Thanks. Dave.

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Ben Mustill-Rose

2:26 p.m.

Wouldn't it just be a simple case of running net start windows audio You could even try and automate this as part of a script that would execute post install. On 04/06/2011, David Mehler wrote:

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HI, I can add server 2003sp2 and server 2003r2 enterprise to the not automatic sound enable category. I'd definitely like to make it do so since I still have one.

Thanks. Dave.

On 6/4/11, chris hallsworth wrote:

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Hi all. I would like to know the answer to the second question as well. I have Server 2003 Standard, which enables sound by default, but not in Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. The only way to get it to start automatically is by inserting the Window-Eyes installation CD and run the installation program, which should happen automatically anyway. But not everybody has a full copy of Window-Eyes, so this won't be an ideal solution for everybody. Take care.

Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird

On 04/06/2011 02:43, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08.

Thanks. Dave.

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Ryan Shugart

3:09 p.m.

Actually, on all server OS's accept 2003 standard the audio service isn't just stopped but disabled so it can't be started. From an elevated command prompt, run Sc config audiosrv start= auto Be very careful with the spacing on that command. Then if you reboot, or run net start audiosrv it should come up. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 8:27 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of server 2008? Wouldn't it just be a simple case of running net start windows audio You could even try and automate this as part of a script that would execute post install. On 04/06/2011, David Mehler wrote:

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HI, I can add server 2003sp2 and server 2003r2 enterprise to the not automatic sound enable category. I'd definitely like to make it do so since I still have one.

Thanks. Dave.

On 6/4/11, chris hallsworth wrote:

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Hi all. I would like to know the answer to the second question as well. I have Server 2003 Standard, which enables sound by default, but not in Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. The only way to get it to start automatically is by inserting the Window-Eyes installation CD and run the installation program, which should happen automatically anyway. But not everybody has a full copy of Window-Eyes, so this won't be an ideal solution for everybody. Take care.

Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird

On 04/06/2011 02:43, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08.

Thanks. Dave.

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Ryan Shugart

3:09 p.m.

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HI, I can add server 2003sp2 and server 2003r2 enterprise to the not automatic sound enable category. I'd definitely like to make it do so since I still have one.

Thanks. Dave.

On 6/4/11, chris hallsworth wrote:

...
Hi all. I would like to know the answer to the second question as well. I have Server 2003 Standard, which enables sound by default, but not in Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. The only way to get it to start automatically is by inserting the Window-Eyes installation CD and run the installation program, which should happen automatically anyway. But not everybody has a full copy of Window-Eyes, so this won't be an ideal solution for everybody. Take care.

Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird

On 04/06/2011 02:43, David Mehler wrote:

...
Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08.

Thanks. Dave.

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John G. Heim

3:54 p.m.

I see lots of other people have addressed the sound issue. But about the unattended install, have you tried the Windows Automatic Installation Kit? I've only done it with Windows 7 and I don't know if it was available for versions of Windows before Vista. The Windows 7 version has a key for configuring sound but I haven't even looked at what properties it has because the defaults are good for Windows 7 installs. The Windows Automatic installation kit is a free download from Microsoft and it comes with pretty good documentation. The accessibility of the program is not great. I could not get it to work with nvda and had to use jaws to use it. And even then it was kind of tricky. The product allows you to create an xml answer file. Theoretically, you could probably create that file in a text editor. In fact, I often fire up notepad to make minor changes in my answer file. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mehler" To: "blind-sysadmins" Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:43 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of server 2008?

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Hello, Does anyone have a tutorial or procedure for an unattended install of server 2008? Also, how would one unattendedly enable sound? In server 03 I never got sound going without assistance, I'm hoping this issue has a fix in 08.

Thanks. Dave.

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