[sw2000]

I have been working on developing a sysprepped Vista Business image for about two months. I'm not doing anything real fancy at this point other then the network (Work, Home, Other) registry hack and moving the Users folder onto a D: partition on the same drive. I use imageX and Windows PE for capturing images.

I have maintained an unsysprepped image for the endless list of customizations to the working profile I want sysprep to copy it to the default when I sysprep the image. Everything was working fine for about a month. Know since I updated the unsysprepped with a few small applications everytime I run sysprep everything appears to be fine. No errors. The image comes up and appears to be in perfect working order. But my default profile is empty and all my cutomizations do not populate when a new user creates a profile.

I'm completely stumped. Is it bad to move the User folder to D:? I have read its a questionable practice. I have also ever been able to get DoNotCleanTaskbar to work either. I would like it to not touch the task bar but it cleans it everytime. Its not in the code below because I gave up on it working. Small issue.

Thanks in advance!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
	<settings pass="generalize">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<PersistAllDeviceInstalls>true</PersistAllDeviceInstalls>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<settings pass="specialize">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<RunSynchronous>
				<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
					<Path>net user administrator /active:yes</Path>
					<Order>1</Order>
				</RunSynchronousCommand>
				<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
					<Path>reg add &quot;HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Signatures\FirstNetwork&quot; /v Category /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f</Path>
					<Order>2</Order>
				</RunSynchronousCommand>
			</RunSynchronous>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
			<ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
			<TimeZone>Central Standard Time</TimeZone>
			<Display>
				<ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth>
				<DPI>96</DPI>
				<HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution>
				<RefreshRate>60</RefreshRate>
				<VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution>
			</Display>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLC-UX" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<settings pass="oobeSystem">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale>
			<SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale>
			<UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage>
			<UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<OOBE>
				<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
				<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
				<ProtectYourPC>2</ProtectYourPC>
				<SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
			</OOBE>
			<UserAccounts>
				<AdministratorPassword>
					<Value>QwBvAG0AbQBvAG4AMQBBAGQAbQBpAG4AaQBzAHQAcgBhAHQAbwByAFAAYQBzAHMAdwBvAHIAZAA=</Value>
					<PlainText>false</PlainText>
				</AdministratorPassword>
				<LocalAccounts>
					<LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
						<Password>
							<Value>RAB1AGMAawBzADIAMAAwADcAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA==</Value>
							<PlainText>false</PlainText>
						</Password>
						<Description>Local Account</Description>
						<Name>DLAdmin</Name>
						<Group>Administrators</Group>
					</LocalAccount>
				</LocalAccounts>
			</UserAccounts>
			<RegisteredOrganization>Our Organization</RegisteredOrganization>
			<RegisteredOwner>Our Organization</RegisteredOwner>
			<FolderLocations>
				<ProfilesDirectory>D:\Users</ProfilesDirectory>
			</FolderLocations>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/users/user/desktop/install.wim#Windows Vista BUSINESS" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

This post has been edited by sw2000: 29 April 2008 - 09:43 AM

[sw2000]

Today I customized the Windows administrator account instead of using the profile I created to be my model default profile. I ran sysprep and it worked. Any idea why CopyProfile would work for the admin account and not my other account. I thought the only thing you needed to do to have the CopyProfile work in Vista sysprep was be logged in as the profile you want to copy when sysprep is run.

Ideas?