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Martbasi - No progress on our end yet. It's a convenience thing for us right now and hasn't had too much of an effect so we've been focusing on other things. I'll post back if I learn anything.

This happens on all of our images. It's a local admin account. We are a public school district and each device has local administrator enabled. We enable local admin on the VM and set up the profile. Then we create a default profile for any other users and then add the few particular profiles we know that school will use. During the deployment process and setting up the unattend answer file we make sure that the "enable local admin" option is checked, and everything works quite well except that the admin profile we set up in the VM doesn't appear as it should. You still have proper admin privileges but the start menu and desktop settings are not as they should be.

Has anyone had the occurrence of their Local Administrator profile (set up within the image) not transferring over during deployment? I have checked "enable local admin account" and made sure w/i the image that the admin account was set up correctly before creating a separate default profile for the OS. After deployment when i log on as Local Admin, I'm not getting the profile I set up, but rather the Default profile. All of the other profiles I've setup within the image transfer over without any issues, and the default profile applies to new users as it should. This is a Windows 7 Pro image.

For all who were wondering, after troubleshooting with support it has been determined that the image was somehow corrupted. It's not clear why, but I will be rebuilding it anew within VMware.

I have an image that I've been deploying with success that is now giving me unexpected problems. I've made what I consider minor changes to the VM, recaptured the image in SmartDeploy, and am now receiving an error during deployment, after SysPrep, saying that "Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation." When I click restart, windows will boot up but not connect to our domain, and the administrator profile is not in the configuration that it is on the VM (missing desktop icons, missing start menu items etc...) The changes I've made in the VM are: -Ran Windows Updates (Win 7) -Added a folder to the desktop of our local administrator account that has two batch files to configure power settings and activate certain programs, an Avast AV msi and a wireless profile. -Changed registry setting to disallow automatic updates of Adobe DC -Changed registry setting to hide the action center icon I suspect that something in the changes is causing the image not to install properly, but do not understand why. Has anybody ran into a similar issue? ***Update*** I removed the desktop folder with the batch files and wireless profile config, as well as the registry keys for Adobe DC and the Action Center Icon. I recaptured the image and after deploying again, I was now given an option to choose a wireless network, which I skipped, and was presented with the same error message as before. After clicking restart, the same "altered image" results occured. ***Update*** Tried again, thinking the image wasn't shutting down correctly. Shutdown via cmd prompt with shutdown.exe /s /t 0, still am having the same issue. Here is the sysprep log from the deployed machine: 2015-10-04 09:05:46, Error [NETIOUGC.EXE] TCPIP: Failed to open the root registry key (named 'Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\UnattendSettings\Netio') for all Netio Unattend settings: 0x2. 2015-10-04 09:05:46, Error [DNSCACHEUGC.EXE] DNSCACHE: Failed to open the root registry key (named 'Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\UnattendSettings\DnsCache') for all DNSCache Unattend settings: 0x2. 2015-10-04 09:05:48, Error [NETBTUGC.EXE] NetBT: Failed to open the registry key (named 'Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\UnattendSettings\NetBT\Interfaces') for NetBT Unattend action settings: 0x2: The system cannot find the file specified. 2015-10-04 09:08:48, Error [msoobe.exe] Failed to install product key 2015-10-04 09:10:17, Error [windeploy.exe] Command [%windir%\system32\oobe\oobeldr.exe /system] failed with exit code [0x80070005] 2015-10-04 09:10:17, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x80004005 The network driver is also failing to load. The machine is a Dell Latitude 3540.