Windows 10 SYSPREP problems

Hello,

I had a very similar issue myself last week. Windows 10 is very picky when it comes to running sysprep. I also removed several built in apps on my build just to have sysprep fail. What I ended up doing is setting the autoadmin login count to 1, then run a script to call a power shell to delete the apps post sysprep. and reboot. I did have to add several delays to make sure the script completed. Hope this helps.

I added a bat file to run in the runonce as below, it does a 80 second delay, then removes the apps:

@Echo off
cls
Echo "Removing built in apps, Please do not touch a key"
start /wait Powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass  -command "c:\windows\panther\delay.ps1"
cls
Echo "Removing built in apps, Please do not touch a key"
start /wait Powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass  -command "c:\windows\panther\app_remove.ps1"

App_remove.ps1

write-output "Removing Applications, Please do not touch a key"
Start-Sleep -s 3
Start-Sleep -s 3
Get-AppxPackage *xboxapp* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 20
Get-AppxPackage *zunemusic* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 15
Get-AppxPackage *BingWeather* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 15
Get-AppxPackage *windowsstore* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 15
Get-AppxPackage *skypeapp* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 15
Get-AppxPackage *solitairecollection* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *bingfinance* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *bingnews* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *maps* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *sway* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *zunevideo* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *bingsports* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *officehub* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Get-AppxPackage *onenote* | Remove-AppxPackage
Start-Sleep -s 12
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.WindowsMaps_4.1509.50911.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.XboxApp_2015.930.526.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.ZuneMusic_2019.6.13251.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.ZuneVideo_2019.6.13251.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.BingWeather_4.6.169.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.WindowsStore_2015.1013.14.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.Office.Sway_2015.6216.20251.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.Office.OneNote_2015.6131.10051.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.SkypeApp_3.2.1.0_neutral_~_kzf8qxf38zg5c
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_3.3.9211.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.BingFinance_4.6.169.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.BingNews_4.6.169.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.BingSports_4.6.169.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2
Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online -Packagename Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_2015.6306.23501.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe
Start-Sleep -s 2

I'll give that a shot. I already have a C:\Applications folder that contains post-install stuff. 

One question, do you know how to get a Powershell Script to run directly from explorer? In order to use the script I linked to above, I had to first open powershell, then set-executionpolicy unrestricted and then run the script, and then set it back to restricted. I'd rather not have to do that every time I image a PC!

Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. This time I started from scratch again, installed Education 64-bit, installed Office 2016 32-bit, put in the product keys for both (Windows 10 won't even let you do your desktop theme customizations until you put in the product key!), did not install anything else other than DIA, only copied over my Applications folder to C:. 

Also this time, I did not let the VM connect to the internet for updates, and I did not open powershell for any reason, I set up the scripts like you posted above in the post-install commands in unattend.xml.

I let DIA validate, install Dell_PE and run sysprep over night. This morning, I come in and I've still got the same error message.

Very frustrating!

I think it has to do with the media you are using

Try this: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/OSISO

I'm not using a Dell image. I'm using SW_DVD5_WIN_EDU_10_1511_64BIT_English_MLF_X20-82160.ISO direct from Microsoft's VLSC.

I think jwk76 may have meant to respond to this post.

JTremblay - You mentioned that you were originally using E6320.  Did this same issue occur on the E6320, or only when you started using parallels as your build base?  I presume this means that your host machine is a Mac?  We have not tested ImageAssist in a parallels.  More information here regarding building in a VM.  Best practices for building your image in a Virtual Machine

Tyler

OK, so I started over again, this time on the E6320 again. However, after working on it all day, sysprep still throws up with the same error (after chewing on generalizing for a good long time).

In order to even get sysprep to process, though, I had to run some powershell commands to remove those pesky store apps that Microsoft is shoving down our throats (Candy Crush, Twitter, etc.)

I found this resource:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2015/11/23/seeing-extra-apps-turn-them-off/

Basically there's a reg key you can add manually and to the unattend.xml to block these things from loading, but didn't come across this until later on in the build.

reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent /v DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Still need help with the error I'm getting. Not sure if it's entirely related to the Windows Store or not. Why would the error be "sysprep.exe /export "c:\dell_pe_folder\bcd_store_save"? Is it exporting the bcd file? Why?

OK, I finally got it to pass sysprep and capture with DIA!  I think the sticking point was the new version of DIA. I installed the same version I used back in January, and did not update it.

However, after deploying the image to another machine, I noticed that Windows' privacy options have everything defaulting to ON again (I want to make the image default to sending NOTHING to Microsoft/3rd parties)

Does anyone have a post-install script for that?

UPDATE March 22, 2018

Yesterday I installed 1709 Pro and ran all of the latest internet posted cumulative updates. After performing the updates, the following default apps prevented Sysprep from completing. Running the below set of commands saved as a batch or command file cleaned up my reference build allowing Sysprep to complete without any errors.

CLS
Echo Removing some Appx Packages which interfere with Sysprep
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package 89006A2E.AutodeskSketchBook_1.7.1.0_x64__tf1gferkr813w
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package DolbyLaboratories.DolbyAccess_2.2.160.0_x64__rz1tebttyb220
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package A278AB0D.DisneyMagicKingdoms_2.8.2.3_x86__h6adky7gbf63m
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package Microsoft.BingNews_4.23.10572.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package king.com.BubbleWitch3Saga_4.2.2.0_x86__kgqvnymyfvs32
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_1.75.483.0_x86__zpdnekdrzrea0
powershell -executionpolicy remotesigned Remove-AppxPackage -Package king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga_1.110.600.0_x86__kgqvnymyfvs32
:Complete

Hi, i 'm having the same error code with image assist, after few days of headache and uses of procmon i find that sysprep get a bunch of error in registry while browsing  scheduled task .

It seems that after deleting task in microsoft\windows\application experience sysprep failed . After restoring tasks from xml sysprep and image assist are going well to the end on process.

Tyler - got an update on this for going from 1809 to 1909?  Getting the Compat-Gentel error in sysprep.

I realize this is pretty much necroing, but I found this in a Google search, when I was trying to sysprep and it was choking on Spotify.  If you add -allusers to the Remove-AppxPackage line, it will get you passed the error when only some (in my case non-existent) user has it installed.

So I opened PowerShell as administrator and used the following command:

Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Package SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_1.75.483.0_x86__zpdnekdrzrea0

After that, SysPrep ran!