Custom attributes for Microsoft Windows

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

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Custom attributes for Microsoft Windows

For a Windows OS Installation Profile, you can set various Windows operating system custom attributes that allow you to replace or insert values inside the unattend.xml file during the operating system installation process. At install-time, the resolved value of the custom attribute is inserted into unattend.xml.

For example, if you do not have AdminPassword=Foo in your unattend.xml file, but you do have it added as a custom attribute, OS Provisioning will automatically add AdminPassword=CustAttrValue at install time.

For more information on how to add custom attributes, see Adding Custom Attributes to OS Installation Profile.

Refer to Microsoft documentation for syntax and valid values. Unless otherwise noted in the table, there are no default values for these attributes if they are not set.

Windows custom attributes for OS provisioning
Keyword	Corresponding unattend.xml Attribute	Description
`AdminPassword`	[GuiUnattended]/AdminPassword	This option sets the Administrator password for the Admin account.
AGENT_INSTALL_DELAY		Allows you to introduce a delay after provisioning a system that allows the build scripts to wait before starting to install the agent. Default: 30 seconds
`argstring`	None	String value that is used to compose the command line arguments for the Agent installer.
`auto_partition`		Used by consoleless to indicate that instead of requiring interactive user confirmation before partitioning the disk, partition the disk automatically.
`ComputerName`	[UserData]/ComputerName	This value is not validated by SA. This custom attribute should only be set on the Server, but SA does not prevent you from setting the attribute anywhere. The default value is an SA-generated random string.
hpsa_netconfig	None	Created after using non-DHCP to boot the target server into the Unprovisioned Servers list.
`imageexec`	None	Command to apply legacy image-based provisioning image. This supports traditional imaging tools such as Symantec Ghost™. However, using the built in support for WIM images is strongly encouraged.
`imagefile`	None	Path to a server image file. This supports traditional imaging tools such as Symantec Ghost™. However, using the built in support for WIM images is strongly encouraged.
`imageshare`	None	Share with image file to install. This supports traditional imaging tools such as Symantec Ghost™. However, using the built in support for WIM images is strongly encouraged.
`ProductKey`	[UserData]/ProductKey	This value is not validated by SA.
`timeout`	None	An integer value in minutes that the Windows Setup will timeout. Default is 120 minutes. If Windows setup does not complete in the specified amount of time, the operating system installation fails with a timeout error.

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