Hello
I have Windows 8.1Enterprise image failing at the end of the PE phase from aWDS Server. I´ve searching through every related post but nothing solves the issue. My scenario is similar to this one (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7ce4c49d-e8a4-460a-ae17-240daaf5f50e/deploying-a-win7-image-via-wds-fails-with-offlineservicing-error?forum=w7itproinstall), but with Windows 8.1 Enterprise instead.
Basically, I have sysprepped Windows 8.1 and capture the image successfully without any problem. Then, I´ve uploaded the image to my WDS without any unattend xml file, but when trying to install it I get the following error message after completing the "Expanding Windows Files" phase:
- “Windows could not apply unattend settings during pass [offlineServicing]”
I´ve used the official image release, plus the only one partition disk is formatted before the installation. Every configuration seems to be set correctly. I wonder if there is any particular issue related to Windows 8.1.
I´ve already done this procedure with many other OS images and I´ve never got this error message.
Furthermore, I also tried to perform the installation with an empty unattend answer file attached to the deployed image, but the error still appears.
I wonder if the Win8.1 image needs a proper configuration of the unattend answer file, specially on thePass 2 of OfflineServicing. Unfortunately I don´t know how to configure it. I would like to keep the credentials and partition configuration be set manually.
Thank you for any help you can give me.