Questions tagged [sysprep]

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What's the Hash in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.\UserChoice?

With Windows 8, the user's choice for which application to open for a given document type seems to be kept in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\\UserChoice For PDFs on my machine, this…
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Partial sysprep when creating Windows AMI

tdlr; I want to create an AMI with "partial sysprep" so that SSM can connect when I launch a different Instance Type than the original off that AMI, but want to keep all else equal. It only needs to update metadata/kms routes. I recently hit an…
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Sysprep an Azure VM using PowerShell task in a pipeline

My (dotNET) application is built (using a Windows Hosted agent), from a build pipeline, and in the subsequent Release pipeline, I provision a 16GB-Win2016 VM (enabling RDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WinRM and SSH), into which I RDP manually (there is a Manual…
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Remove-AppxPackage for all users

I would like to remove the Fitbit package from the Microsoft Store apps in Window 10. I have -allusers in the Powershell command but it's telling me Fitbit isn't in the current user. I don't care what user it's in. I would like to find out why it…
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Sysprep failure on windows.miracastview

When trying to sysprep and windows 10 (1709) build I get the following error: Package Windows.MiracastView_6.3.0.0_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy was installed for a user but not provisioned for all users. This package will not function properly in the…
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How to login with different user credential while creating GCE instance using powershell startup script

I am trying following--> Creating GCE instance via gcloud cmds As a metadata I am providing ps1 scripts which is creating User and adding to required domain Once user created I need to use that user credential and run few commands as…
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Generating a password for a generalized Windows Server instance on OCI

It is my understanding that the Oracle default Windows server images leverage Cloudbase-Init alongside an Unattend.xml file to generate a password for the user, but I am curious about the specifics of this as I am attempting to create my own images…
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Run SysPrep remotely through commands from Azure powershell

I want to run some commands to do Sysprep remotely through powershell. So first I created a session using this: $UserName = "IPAddress\username" $Password = ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force $psCred = New-Object…
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Sysprep failed because of Miracastview

When I run sysprep on Windows 10, I am getting below error in the log file: Package Windows.MiracastView_6.3.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users. This package will not function properly in…
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Call to 169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id fails in AWS deployment script

I'm using some scripts based on http://blog.brianbeach.com/2014/07/setting-hostname-in-syspreped-ami.html to set the Host Name of a new windows instance created from an AMI to be the Name tag of the instance. Instead of HKLM:\System\Setup pointing…
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Ec2Config.exe -sysprep VIA powershell Script

So I am attempting to use Amazons Ec2Config.exe -sysprep command to sysprep an instance and prepare it to be cloned into a new AMI with the programs I require installed. The following are the last two lines of code I run in this particular…
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Moving Servers to IaaS without sysprep azure-virtual-machine

azure-virtual-machine Hello, I am moving a bunch of servers from my datacentre to azure. Servers are test & development sharepoint & SQL. depending on how successful the migration is we will consider moving additional servers. for this i have setup…
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Failure provisioning a vm

I have an on prem sysprepped vhd with which I am trying to create a vm in azure. I am running into all kinds of errors and I am solving one after the other. Now, I actually have an error which is not making any sense to me. New-AzureRmVM : Long…
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Launching Sysprep from HTA with Run method fails

I have three files: test.vbs Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") st = "" windir = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%") stCommand = windir &…
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MDT - Disable auto login of default administrator account in the task sequence

In my task sequence for a deployment of a captured image of Windows 7 Pro, I have a step that disables the default administrator account. I also have a step that elevates another account dubbed 'localadmin' as an administrator. Unfortunately it's…
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