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Word of advice to everyone; do not sysprep a machine that is in an organisational unit that has strict GPO Units applied to it. Wasted a whole day. Sysprep successfully worked and ran through the OOBE till completion once I moved the machine object in AD in a nonrestricted Organisationa Unit.

Hi After being successful in deploying a Vista Image via WDS I need now to capture that image and deploy it back to the WDS server after installing apps etc. However, after running sysprep, the machine fails to load again and keeps rebooting???? Cheers

Got it to work!!! Now I have the WDSclientunattent.xml repartitioning/formating the disk and my image unattend going through the other stages of the setup. Below is a total copy of my "image" unattend file; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Identification> <UnsecureJoin>True</UnsecureJoin> <JoinDomain>wbuck</JoinDomain> </Identification> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <BluetoothTaskbarIconEnabled>false</BluetoothTaskbarIconEnabled> <DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>true</DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet> <RegisteredOrganization>William Buck (NSW)</RegisteredOrganization> <RegisteredOwner>William Buck (NSW)</RegisteredOwner> <ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive> <ComputerName>*</ComputerName> </component> </settings> <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <UserAccounts> <DomainAccounts> <DomainAccountList wcm:action="add"> <DomainAccount wcm:action="add"> <Group>Administrators</Group> <Name>Domain Admins</Name> </DomainAccount> <Domain>wbuck</Domain> </DomainAccountList> </DomainAccounts> <AdministratorPassword> <Value>RwBNADAAMgAwADUAMAA0AGkAdABBAGQAbQBpAG4AaQBzAHQAcgBhAHQAbwByAFAAYQBzAHMAdwBvAHIAZAA=</Value> <PlainText>false</PlainText> </AdministratorPassword> <LocalAccounts> <LocalAccount wcm:action="add"> <Password> <Value>RwBNADAAMgAwADUAMAA0AGkAdABQAGEAcwBzAHcAbwByAGQA</Value> <PlainText>false</PlainText> </Password> <DisplayName>HelpDesk</DisplayName> <Group>Administrators</Group> <Name>HelpDesk</Name> <Description /> </LocalAccount> </LocalAccounts> </UserAccounts> <TimeZone>AUS Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone> <OOBE> <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage> <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation> <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC> <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE> </OOBE> <RegisteredOrganization></RegisteredOrganization> <RegisteredOwner></RegisteredOwner> <Themes> <DefaultThemesOff>false</DefaultThemesOff> </Themes> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale> <SystemLocale>en-AU</SystemLocale> <UILanguage>en-AU</UILanguage> <UserLocale>en-AU</UserLocale> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/vista_installation/install.wim#Windows Vista ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /> </unattend>

Hi Ben I'm experiencing the exact same problem. Have you been able to solve the domain joining issue? I have only begun working with WSIM and WDS. I have successfully created the WDSclientunattend at the server level, but unable to get the computer to join the domain using an unattend file at the Image Level. I have read a lot of posts about esuring you add a local user account in the xml file?? It would be great if you could post your XML file at the image level if you have resolved your issue. Thanking you in advance.. George