Ruan Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 It would appear that only on certain machines whilst installing Windows 7 Pro (some HP DC5850s only) the install all goes fine and under Applying System Settings it will error out with: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup] I've ran it on some older Dell GX520s and they seem to image absolutely fine, it only seems to be certain DC5850s, we spent a good few hours playing about with the answer file originally assuming it had generically "broken", but then found some other machines would image fine...? Any ideas? I can post the unattend file if needed. Cheers, Ruan
sukh Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Hi Post your unattend if you can please. Regards Sukh
Ruan Posted February 28, 2011 Author Posted February 28, 2011 OnError 0 1 .\Images\PBEC\win7image-(2).wim /image/index 1 false 16 1024 60 768 OnError true en-US 0409:00000409 en-US en-US en-US true http://lalala.lalla.cornwall.sch.uk false EnableAdmin 1 cmd /c net user Administrator /active:yes UnfilterAdministratorToken 2 cmd /c reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v FilterAdministratorToken /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f 0409:00000409 en-US en-US en-US 0 "" 1 9 9 1 "" "" "" Default 1 lalalalal true Temp account Temp account Users TempAccount true Administrator . lalalalala true 999 32 1024 60 768 cscript.exe C:\MININT\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf /start Lite Touch new OS 1 cscript.exe D:\MININT\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf /start Lite Touch new OS 2 cscript.exe E:\MININT\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf /start Lite Touch new OS 3 cscript.exe F:\MININT\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf /start Lite Touch new OS 4 true Work 1 true Pool Business and Enterprise College ICT Dept 0409:00000409 en-US en-US en-US \Drivers Hope this helps!
sukh Posted February 28, 2011 Posted February 28, 2011 Hi The Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup does not exist on your specialize pass. Create this and test again. At least have the section there even if you don't intend to use it. Regards Sukh
sparker Posted August 15, 2011 Posted August 15, 2011 (edited) Hi The Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup does not exist on your specialize pass. Create this and test again. At least have the section there even if you don't intend to use it. Regards Sukh I have this problem as well. I have installed 2-- machines but have 4 difficult ones that are compaining about the specialize pass. Can any one help? Here is the unnattend file: True coombes OU=Coombes Computers,DC=coombes,DC=local false true Coombes Primary School Coombes Primary School false * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Administrators Domain Admins coombes dABjAGMAMwBwADUAYQB3AGIAQQBkAG0AaQBuAGkAcwB0AHIAYQB0AG8AcgBQAGEAcwBzAHcAbwByAGQA false dABjAGMAMwBwADUAYQB3AGIAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA== false HelpDesk Administrators HelpDesk GMT Standard Time true Work 1 false en-GB en-GB en-GB en-GB Edited August 15, 2011 by ZeroHour
Jambo_C Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 Hi, I'm also getting this error on 5 PC's The thing is I haven't even used an unattend file for the machine name etc (I filled this in manually). I did it over 2 rooms and every PC worked fine apart from 5 which all give the error.
JKling Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 Hi, I'm also getting this error on 5 PC's The thing is I haven't even used an unattend file for the machine name etc (I filled this in manually). I did it over 2 rooms and every PC worked fine apart from 5 which all give the error. I am also having this issue, I am loading 40 HP Laptops with a pretty basic Windows 7 load. I am multicasting them 4 at a time (limited lab space). It worked perfectly on the first 10, then I started getting the error on one of the four. I would leave it in the group and retransmit the image. It would fail again and I may get another that fails. I left 4 on unicast over night and when I came in, all 4 had failed. It is the progression that has me a little stumped. Should not be an image issue, because it has worked. Anyone have any thoughts? I am at a loss... JKling
Jambo_C Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 Yeah, it doesn't make sense. I've done the same image on another 30 PC's now and all worked perfectly. It's just these 5 machines will not work. As I've said the weird thing is, is that is does it even when I'm not using an answer file.
JKling Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 I am also having this issue, I am loading 40 HP Laptops with a pretty basic Windows 7 load. I am multicasting them 4 at a time (limited lab space). It worked perfectly on the first 10, then I started getting the error on one of the four. I would leave it in the group and retransmit the image. It would fail again and I may get another that fails. I left 4 on unicast over night and when I came in, all 4 had failed. It is the progression that has me a little stumped. Should not be an image issue, because it has worked. Anyone have any thoughts? I am at a loss... JKling OK, just spitballing here... I went into AD and deleted the computers that were automatically created (looks like it is an incremented version of the username that imaged the PC) and seems to have fixed th problem on 1 computer. I am testing further. My guess is that the computer is trying to join the domain with a computer name that already exists. That is causing the unattend.xml to bomb. I will let you know what I get... 1
Jambo_C Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 This sounds promising. I checked AD and had exactly 5 weird automatically created names. Can't be coincidence, surely. The strange thing was it had named them the same as the others but then added what appears to be an IPV6 address onto the end of the name. Anyway, I've set one of them imaging now and will see shortly.
Jambo_C Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 Deleting the objects in AD appears to have fixed my problem. Hope it's fixed yours! Cheers. 2
JKling Posted August 18, 2011 Posted August 18, 2011 Looks like that is the answer if you are doing small batches... Not sure what it looks like when doing a full lab. I will check that in the next day or two. @Jambo_C thanks for the confirmation
mtv Posted September 6, 2013 Posted September 6, 2013 Hi All I'm having this issue too here is my file to look at. I installed WAIK to see if there were any errors and only see the following. 2013-09-06 07:25:40, Error [setup.exe] [Action Queue] : Unattend action failed with exit code 4 2013-09-06 07:25:40, Error [setup.exe] Execution of unattend GCs failed; hr = 0x0; pResults->hrResult = 0x8030000b 1 1 net user administrator /active:yes false true false Central Standard Time false en-us en-us en-us en-us aQBrAHcAaQBsAGEAaQBsAHcAaQBrAFAAYQBzAHMAdwBvAHIAZAA= false true 5 administrator 1 false cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /skms chocolate.tss.northwestern.edu:1688 2 cscript //b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato false true Work 1 aQBrAHcAaQBsAGEAaQBsAHcAaQBrAEEAZABtAGkAbgBpAHMAdAByAGEAdABvAHIAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA== false Local Administrator Administrator Administrators Administrator Northwestern University McCormick
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