Editing Sysprep Unattend.xml after Sysprep

Solution 1:

The unattend.xml file may be in either of:

  • C:\Windows\Panther\
  • C:\Windows\Panther\unattend\

inside the image.

Solution 2:

  1. Mount the sysprep'd image as a VHD on a VM or if it's captured as a WIM them mount the WIM to a newly created empty directory
  2. Navigate to C:\Windows\Panther and update the XML file in-place
  3. Dismount the WIM file and save allowing it to be used again or else edit the XML file on the VHD directly allowing over-write

This would resolve your issue.