RDP Windows 2003 Virtual Machine Script Error

[G L_1]

Hello,

I was just testing something small by creating a VM in ESX Server 2.1 then went about PXE booting then droppin a predefined scripted install of Windows 2003 (VM) on.

Everything went fine until the end. I deployed with RDP 2.0 so after all files got copied and reboot occured and when the blue screen for Windows Setup Comes up it halts and goes:

"The Script file specified with the /u command line switch

c:\unattend.txt

contains a syntax error on line 48.

Setup cannont continue, press ENTER to exit"

Is this any way around this?

Thanks.

[Gopi Sekar]

There could be two reasons for this issue as found by some of the RDP experts:

1) Are there any lines in the [UserData] section that have spaces in the
values? this error crops up when values are like
OrgName=My Company Name
Instead of
OrgName="My Company Name"

Any values with spaces in them are required to have quotes around them.

2) it could happen if machine name has spaces (the ComputerName= value is obtained from the RDP node name in the console, which, being based on the VM UUID string, has
spaces in it). To get around this rename the target system in the console before dropping the job on it

Regards,
Gopi