What edition of Windows are you using? If it's Enterprise edition, then the media/keys from MSDN are VLK. Not sure about the other editions.
In terms of installing using Retail or OEM media, and then attempting to use a VLK (or vice versa), I'm pretty sure it won't work. Windows will reject the key as not being valid. Now, I haven't done this for quite some time, so you might want to test it to validate. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 9:41 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Building multi-role Windows 7 installation DVDs Thanks Ken, Just looking at MDT now. I've go my Infrastructure manager trying to track down the corporate VL media and if that fails I'd use an MSDN retail version as long as I can either skip the product key entry until after deployment (or else have each developer change the product key after installation) so I'm reading-up to find if this is even possible. -- Regards, noonie On 16 November 2011 11:57, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: You can't use non-VLK (e.g. retail) media and VLK keys Another option would be to use MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). You can write some scripts to run the installers for the various things you want to install, and a little GUI that allows the person running the setup to choose which components they want to install. The source files could be stored on a network share rather than on the DVD itself. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 8:05 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Building multi-role Windows 7 installation DVDs Thanks Grant, I'll look at that for the setup creation. I'm more interested in what installer to create the reference image from. e.g. Can I create the reference image from non-VLK setup media and skip the product key part so that our developers can enter their valid MSDN key after installation? -- Regards, noonie On 16 November 2011 09:53, Grant Holliday <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: VHD2WIM
