mopey85

Can you give some more information? Are you deploying it? Is this a one off install? I haven't had any such trouble with 2012,2013 or 2014?

If you use the SCCM capture media there are some things that should be noted. 1. I found the copy profile command as part of the unattend.xml wasn't that reliable or successful. Could be my method but overall this didn't work for me. 2. Use a VM so you can snapshot. This method will only work if you can revert to an earlier snapshot. My method. 1. Prepare image to capture within SCCM. 2. Create basic unattend.xml with ONLY the copy profile command. 3. Run a general sysprep over the image with the unattend.xml you just created. 4. Bring the machine back up and then use the SCCM capture media to capture the image. This has worked successfully for windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. i might create a blog about using this method within 8.1. I will keep you posted.

I have had the same issue and it turns out this was caused by windows recovery or repair. Cause Students power off eachothers machines as a joke or the battery's get pulled off causing windows to shutdown unexpectedly. Windows then decises it needs to run a repair and restores old files from a restore point. When windows restores some of these files it restores and old machine account password. Machine account passwords are changed every 30 days by the client not the server. So when the computer is finished repairing and tries to join the domain with an old machine account password and windows then rejects the client and its all over. Solution To fix it you can disable automatic machine account password changes on all machines in the network. Note this will not be an instant fix if the machine has been on the domain for 30 days without a restore point set. Instructions Start Registry Editor. To do so, click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters In the right pane, click the DisablePasswordChange entry. On the Edit menu, click Modify. In the Value data box, type a value of 1, and then click OK. Quit Registry Editor. Thats from microsoft but its my first post so i cant post the link. Just google it. Hope this helps.