This started out as an issue trying to deploy out VM's through VMWare vCenter - they previously were working flawlessly and then after I applied a few Windows updates they stopped working so flawlessly... I eventually narrowed it down to sysprep, specifically when I tell it to unattend join the domain. It fails 9 times out of 10, and I can't figure out what specifically makes it fail/work. If I remove the Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin section, it seems to work fine (kind of defeats the purpose of an unattended join though :-) ). Below are relevant log and sysprep.xml entries. I've tried this hotfix from MS, I've made sure that there are no orhpaned ProfileList registry keys, I've tried placing the XML in c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml, according to the DHCP logs it is getting a lease, and wiresharking the machine shows that it was communicating with the domain controllers (a single ldap query for it's machine name) prior to bombing out... I don't know what else to check for :( Any ideas?
C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC\setuperr.log
2010-10-20 09:17:49, Error [windeploy.exe] Setup.exe failed, returning exit code [0x1f]
2010-10-20 09:17:49, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x80004005
C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC\setupact.log
2010-08-03 23:25:07, Info [windeploy.exe] ------------------------------------------------
2010-08-03 23:25:07, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line []...
2010-08-03 23:25:07, Info [windeploy.exe] Setup has not completed, adding pending reboot.
2010-08-03 23:25:07, Info [windeploy.exe] Found generalization state [0x4], setup.exe completion flag [False] --> launching setup.exe.
2010-08-03 23:25:07, Info [windeploy.exe] Launching [C:\Windows\system32\oobe\setup.exe]...
2010-08-03 23:26:29, Info [windeploy.exe] Process exited with exit code [0x0]
2010-08-03 23:26:29, Info [windeploy.exe] Found completion flag [True], reboot requested flag [True] --> rebooting computer before proceeding with deployment...
2010-08-03 23:26:29, Info [windeploy.exe] Making sure that SystemSetupInProgress is cleared.
2010-08-03 23:26:29, Info [windeploy.exe] An immediate reboot or shutdown was requested/required... rebooting / shutting down computer
2010-08-03 23:26:29, Info [windeploy.exe] Flushing registry to disk...
2010-08-03 23:26:30, Info [windeploy.exe] Flush took 1110 ms.
2010-08-03 23:26:30, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe exiting with code [0x0]
2010-08-03 23:27:11, Info [windeploy.exe] ------------------------------------------------
2010-08-03 23:27:11, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line []...
2010-08-03 23:27:11, Info [windeploy.exe] Making sure that SystemSetupInProgress is cleared.
2010-08-03 23:27:12, Info [windeploy.exe] Found no unattend file.
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [windeploy.exe] WinSAT assessment failed with error 80040154
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [windeploy.exe] Launching [C:\Windows\system32\oobe\oobeldr.exe /system]...
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] OOBELdr.exe launched with command-line [/system]...
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] OrchestrateUpdateImageState: Updating image state from [IMAGE_STATE_SPECIALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE] --> [IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE]
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] Parsing command line arguments...
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] Parsing the following command line: [/system]
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] Status for unattend pass [oobeSystem] = 0x0
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] Found no unattend file for oobeSystem pass; skipping pass.
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] No reboot has been requested for oobeSystem unattend.
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] Successfully ran oobeSystem pass.
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [oobeldr.exe] Launching [C:\Windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe]...
2010-08-03 23:27:13, Info [msoobe.exe] Starting service sppsvc
2010-08-03 23:27:14, Info [msoobe.exe] Service sppsvc reports as running
2010-08-03 23:27:14, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully created first boot reg key
2010-08-03 23:27:14, Info [msoobe.exe] Server, exiting...
2010-08-03 23:27:14, Info [msoobe.exe] Running mandatory tasks
2010-08-03 23:27:14, Info [msoobe.exe] Doing background work directly in MandatoryTasks; eType=1
2010-08-03 23:27:15, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully installed product key
2010-08-03 23:27:15, Info [msoobe.exe] Starting service netprofm
2010-08-03 23:27:16, Info [msoobe.exe] Service netprofm reports as running
2010-08-03 23:27:16, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully signalled event to start up services
2010-08-03 23:27:16, Info [msoobe.exe] Doing background work directly in MandatoryTasks; eType=0
2010-08-03 23:27:16, Info [msoobe.exe] Starting service Schedule
2010-08-03 23:27:18, Info [msoobe.exe] Service Schedule is already running
2010-08-03 23:27:18, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully verified and committed UI language settings
2010-08-03 23:27:25, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully notified UI language change
2010-08-03 23:27:25, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully installed Windows Recovery Environment
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [msoobe.exe] Successfully removed administrator profile
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [msoobe.exe] Exiting mandatory tasks... [0x00000000]
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [msoobe.exe] Cleaning up background work
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [oobeldr.exe] OrchestrateUpdateImageState: Updating image state from [IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE] --> [IMAGE_STATE_COMPLETE]
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [oobeldr.exe] OOBELdr.exe exiting with code [0x0]...
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [windeploy.exe] Process exited with exit code [0x0]
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [0x090008] PANTHR CBlackboard::Open: C:\Windows\Panther\SetupInfo succeeded.
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [0x090009] PANTHR CBlackboard::Close: c:\windows\panther\setupinfo.
2010-08-03 23:27:26, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe exiting with code [0x0]
2010-10-20 09:15:35, Info [windeploy.exe] ------------------------------------------------
2010-10-20 09:15:35, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line []...
2010-10-20 09:15:35, Info [windeploy.exe] Setup has not completed, adding pending reboot.
2010-10-20 09:15:35, Info [windeploy.exe] Found generalization state [0x4], setup.exe completion flag [False] --> launching setup.exe.
2010-10-20 09:15:35, Info [windeploy.exe] Launching [C:\Windows\system32\oobe\setup.exe]...
2010-10-20 09:17:00, Info [windeploy.exe] ------------------------------------------------
2010-10-20 09:17:00, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line []...
2010-10-20 09:17:00, Info [windeploy.exe] Setup has not completed, adding pending reboot.
2010-10-20 09:17:00, Info [windeploy.exe] Found generalization state [0x4], setup.exe completion flag [False] --> launching setup.exe.
2010-10-20 09:17:00, Info [windeploy.exe] Launching [C:\Windows\system32\oobe\setup.exe]...
2010-10-20 09:17:49, Info [windeploy.exe] Process exited with exit code [0x1f]
2010-10-20 09:17:49, Error [windeploy.exe] Setup.exe failed, returning exit code [0x1f]
2010-10-20 09:17:49, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x80004005
2010-10-20 09:17:49, Info [windeploy.exe] Flushing registry to disk...
2010-10-20 09:17:51, Info [windeploy.exe] Flush took 1938 ms.
2010-10-20 09:17:51, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe exiting with code [0x80004005]
C:\sysprep\Sysprep.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?
>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"
>
<settings pass="generalize"
>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>
<PersistAllDeviceInstalls
>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls
>
</component
>
</settings
>
<settings pass="oobeSystem"
>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>
<OOBE
>
<SkipUserOOBE
>true</SkipUserOOBE
>
<SkipMachineOOBE
>true</SkipMachineOOBE
>
<ProtectYourPC
>1</ProtectYourPC
>
<NetworkLocation
>Work</NetworkLocation
>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE
>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE
>
<HideEULAPage
>true</HideEULAPage
>
</OOBE
>
<UserAccounts
>
<AdministratorPassword
>
<Value
>EncryptedPassword</Value
>
<PlainText
>false</PlainText
>
</AdministratorPassword
>
</UserAccounts
>
</component
>
</settings
>
<settings pass="specialize"
>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>
<ComputerName
>ComputerName</ComputerName
>
<CopyProfile
>false</CopyProfile
>
<RegisteredOrganization
>OrgName</RegisteredOrganization
>
<RegisteredOwner
>OrgName</RegisteredOwner
>
<ShowWindowsLive
>false</ShowWindowsLive
>
<TimeZone
>Eastern Standard Time</TimeZone
>
</component
>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" processorArchitecture="amd64" 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
>
<Credentials
>
<Password
>UnencryptedPass</Password
>
<Username
>unattendjoiner</Username
>
<Domain
>domain.com</Domain
>
</Credentials
>
<JoinDomain
>domain.com</JoinDomain
>
<DebugJoin
>true</DebugJoin
>
</Identification
>
</component
>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>
<RunSynchronous
>
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"
>
<Path
>C:\sysprep\guestcustutil.exe cleanBootExecute</Path
>
<Order
>1</Order
>
</RunSynchronousCommand
>
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"
>
<Path
>C:\sysprep\guestcustutil.exe flagComplete</Path
>
<Order
>2</Order
>
</RunSynchronousCommand
>
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"
>
<Path
>C:\sysprep\guestcustutil.exe deleteContainingFolder</Path
>
<Order
>3</Order
>
</RunSynchronousCommand
>
</RunSynchronous
>
</component
>
</settings
>
</unattend
>