Windows 10 SysPrep not working

[KnightRaven]

@lukebarone
Oh apparently its just a little further up the chain…
Using the same xml file you can customize both.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/configure-windows-10-taskbar

Jason

[Quazz]

defprof is an excellent alternative for setting up the default profile.

I gave up on unattend files for Windows 10, personally, more headaches than its worth, but then my use cases tend to be simple enough.

[lukebarone]

So I thought it was successful, but apparently not. On my base image machine, I exported the Start Layout into the root of C:, as an XML (apparently, the -As BIN function is removed in Windows 10), and pointed the GPO at that. I rebooted the base image machine, and the start menu was locked down, and the taskbar looked perfect! I even went as far as dropping the unattend.xml file into the %WINDIR%\Panther folder instead.

The issue now when deploying is that when I log in as the user that I had the answer file create, I get the cryptic error message The User Profile Service service failed the sign in. User profile cannot be found. I am skipping the User OOBE so that I can just get in with the Administrator account… But the Administrator account is not active for some reason. I cannot log in via Safe Mode (or else I don’t know how to get into it with Windows 10 without being able to log in), so I cannot pull the logs. I’ll probably be spending my morning trying to get the logs though.

Thoughts?

[lukebarone]

OK, I booted the install drive I had for Windows, and loaded up diskpart. Apparently, the only had 29GB total, with nothing free! It also looked like my postdownloadscripts did not load, as the drivers didn’t appear in the Windows folder automatically.

The new user profile loads, and the Start Menu is working - taskbar, not so much.

So my new issue (which I’ll open a new thread) is to figure out why FOG isn’t resizing the automatically like it did with Windows 7, and why the postdownloadscripts are not working.

[Quazz]

@lukebarone The postdownloadscripts were likely unable to do anything if your drive was full.

[lukebarone]

@quazz I remember in previous images, FOG would resize the images before capturing, then expand them during deployment. For whatever reason, it was not doing that this time around. As per my new post, upgrading to 1.4.4 may have helped… Or just a coincidence…

[A Former User]

@knightraven The problem with using taskbar customization in the XML file is that users cannot make permanent changes to the taskbar. It resets any changes the user makes after reboot.

[lukebarone]

@loosus456 Yea, I have no objection to that. But I can’t get the Taskbar Customization to work (even after fixing the .xml file that is generated), so I gave that part up. It resets the taskbar to just Edge and Explorer, and allows users to customize it how they wish.

[A Former User]

@lukebarone It works fine for me, but I just don’t use it since users can’t then change their taskbar.

[x23piracy]

@lukebarone said in Windows 10 SysPrep not working:

@loosus456 Yea, I have no objection to that. But I can’t get the Taskbar Customization to work (even after fixing the .xml file that is generated), so I gave that part up. It resets the taskbar to just Edge and Explorer, and allows users to customize it how they wish.

Hi,

you need to apply taskbar customs via group policy, if so the user has change rights:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/83b725f4-90f8-476a-bba0-3193e4e47d2e/windows-10-1607-enterprise-taskbar-items-pinned-via-layoutmodificationxml-and?forum=win10itprosetup

IMPORTANT

If you use a provisioning package to configure the taskbar, your configuration will be reapplied each time the explorer.exe >process restarts. If your configuration pins an app and the user unpins that app, the user’s change will be overwritten the >next time the configuration is applied. To apply a taskbar configuration and allow users to make changes that will >persist, apply your configuration by using Group Policy.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/configure-windows-10-taskbar?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

What ever can be done by gpo should be done with gpo (ms philosopy). If you don’t have a domain controller for gpo applyment you can simply use gpedit.msc locally to set this on your golden image.

Regards X23