[Libosinfo] [PATCH] win8.1,installer: Force Windows Activation

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed that when installing Windows 8.1 the activation is not done
>> by the end of the unattended installation and, actually, the serial
>> number shown in the Activate Windows program is different than the one
>> used to perform the installation. Also, when tring to activate the
>> software it fails with the "Windows can't be activate. Try again later"
>> message and no useful details about the error.
>>
>> So, in order to avoid this issue, let's force the activation in the
>> FirstLogon phase of the installation script.
>
> Thanks for the details but I find one important detail still missing:
> How are you forcing the activation? cscript is included in Windows?

Well, I didn't install anything in order to have cscript there.
I found out that similar info in a forum and then made it work based
on the Slmgr.vbs doc (that can be find here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn502540.aspx)
I'll add this info into the commit long and resend with the rest of
the Windows 8.1 series.

>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  data/install-script/microsoft.com/windows-unattend-desktop.xml.in | 7 +++++++
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/data/install-script/microsoft.com/windows-unattend-desktop.xml.in b/data/install-script/microsoft.com/windows-unattend-desktop.xml.in
>> index 3ebbff7..e96a37a 100644
>> --- a/data/install-script/microsoft.com/windows-unattend-desktop.xml.in
>> +++ b/data/install-script/microsoft.com/windows-unattend-desktop.xml.in
>> @@ -251,6 +251,13 @@
>>              <Description>Turn Off Network Selection pop-up</Description>
>>              <CommandLine>cmd /c reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\NewNetworkWindowOff"</CommandLine>
>>             </SynchronousCommand>
>> +           <xsl:if test="os/version = 6.3">
>> +            <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
>> +             <Order>2</Order>
>> +             <Description>Force windows activation</Description>
>> +             <CommandLine>cmd /c cscript.exe slmgr.vbs /ipk <xsl:value-of select="config/reg-product-key"/> /atoi</CommandLine>
>> +            </SynchronousCommand>
>> +           </xsl:if>
>>            </FirstLogonCommands>
>>           </xsl:if>
>>          </component>
>> --
>> 2.7.3
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>
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Fabiano Fidêncio