Windows 11 Out of Box Loop

[MarkBerridge]

Hi everybody,

 

We are setting up 160 new laptops here with Windows 11 but when we deploy them and going through the Out of Box Experience, it wont let us click the join domain button to initiate connecting to local ad, it just loads and loops back to the Microsoft Account Sign in screen.

 

The Windows 11 image is a standard install.wim from a volume license version of Windows 11 Education.

 

The testing computers are in blocked inheritance to make sure there is no Gp's applying and they should be on unfiltered through the Smoothwall but I suspect they are still being blocked somehow. If we pull the cable after network deployment and let it go through the oobe normally we can setup as a local device, we can even plug the network cable in after the button has been clicked and then the setup asks for a local user name etc, the only issues with this way is the computer doesn't auto join the domain but it does at least get the correct computer name.

 

I have tried deploying from a USB and connect to the network during the setup but still the same issue so it seems GP's or domain isn't the problem.

 

From my understanding the Windows 11 oobe is slightly different according to this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/customize-oobe-in-windows-11 . My only ideas based on the oobe is that when deploying the windows updates initially or the setup is banned/blocked from adding the computer to the domain.

 

Sorry this seems messy but I've tried to write out what I can.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Mark