Sysprep always prompts for Product Key

[beatle]

This is a long shot, but it never hurts to try, right? 🙂

I'm trying to sysprep a box using sysprep 2.0. Things are all hunkey-dorey with the exception of the product key. This is a volume license key, BTW. When running sysprep, I check minisetup and then click reseal. The User Data part of the sysprep.inf file looks like this:

[UserData]
FullName="beatle"
OrgName="work"
ComputerName=
ProductId=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

Even though the key is in the sysprep.inf file, the minisetup prompts me for the key. When enter it, it continues to load properly. I've tried changing ProductId to ProductKey to no avail. Is there anything else that can cause this?

Also, as a side problem, sometimes sysprep runs in only 5-10 seconds, as opposed to the several minutes that I've been used to. It's almost like it's not really doing anything, but everything seems fine when the box comes back up after the sysprep. Are these issues linked?

 

[gsellis]

[UserData]
FullName = "beatle"
OrgName = "work"
ComputerName = *
ProductId = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

Doc is wrong. Needs to be in quotes. You are also prompting for a computer name as written. * needed for autogen.

 

[beatle]

Yeah, the prompt for the computer name is intentional. I should have mentioned that.

I'll try it with the quotes and see what I get.

The odd thing is that we've sysprepped nearly a dozen different hardware configs from different manufacturers and we've never had quotes. I'll try anything now.

 

[networkman]

Under the previous version of sysprep you didn't need to have quotes around the product key; I just double-checked the one we used for the last Win2K rollout and that was indeed the case.