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• Windows answer files (unattend.xml): configuration passes and where Setup looks for them

  An unattend.xml answer file supplies settings to specific configuration passes of Windows Setup — windowsPE, generalize, specialize and oobeSystem are the ones provisioning touches most. Setup finds the file through a fixed implicit search order and caches it in %WINDIR%\Panther, and Windows System Image Manager builds these files and can hide, but not encrypt, local-account passwords in them.

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