Software

You should use getcomputername.exe for 32bit KBE and getcomputername_x64.exe for 64bit KBE, not both.  Each accepts the same commandline parameters.

You should be using setcomputername.exe or setcomputername_x64.exe as the midlevel task, not the built in apply computername task.

Where is the location of the unattend.xml on the workstation?

Is this an image or a scripted install?

If its an image, is the image sysprepped?

Corey

Lead T3 Enterprise Solutions Consultant, K2000

After alot of reading on this site and a few others, it turns out that it is fairly simple to do.

First, one needs to follow Corey's advice above and use getcomputername_x64 as a Preinstallation task.  I moved it all of the way to the top of the list.

The midlevel task was a bit more complex, but sake of easy reading, the setcomputername_64 task is second.  Because I am using version 3.6 of the appliance, I had to put the exe in a zip file, upload it, and change the job to simply run the exe.

For the fun part, I had to create an unattended.xml file.  Using the Sysprep Creator on this site was the shorter route to create the file with the options that I wanted.  Once the file was created, I copied it out to the petemp directory on my appliance.  Next I created a copy job to run right before the setcomputername_64 task that copies the file to C:\Windows\Panther.

It works like a charm!