Hello everyone,
I'm hoping someone can help me with this issue I've had trying to sysprep a Windows 8.1 image. I am using the 64bit Windows 8.1 Enterprise disc and did all the configuration through Audit mode. This is running inside VMware Workstation 10 with no fancy stuff turned on. I have built a new unattend file for Windows 8.1, validated it and there are no errors however when I boot up the image it fails on the specialize pass on the Windows Shell Setup component. The only settings I have set in this part of the unattend are CopyProfile True and a computer name. What is odd is the sysprep was successful the first time however I discovered a setting wasn't being applied properly (in the last pass of the unattend so its after specialize) so I reverted to a pre sysprep snapshot and tried to sysprep again and now it wont get pass the error I mentioned above. I'm at my wits end here. I should mention I have tried this on physical hardware as well and ran into the same error.