The VM came up holding a DHCP lease rather than the address it was told to
take, while RDP -- configured a few lines earlier in the same script -- worked
fine. So post-oobe.cmd was running; only the addressing failed.
Two reasons, both fixed. The interface arrives DHCP-managed and nothing turned
DHCP off, so New-NetIPAddress had no lasting effect. And FirstLogonCommands can
run before the adapter is up, so it is now waited for rather than assumed.
Moved out of post-oobe.cmd into its own file. The command is long and full of
quotes and pipes, which is not a thing to leave at the mercy of cmd's parsing.
It also logs, so the next failure can be read off the disk instead of inferred.
Pings are now allowed too. Windows blocks ICMP by default, which makes a box
at a fixed address look dead to everything that checks it the obvious way --
including me, for a while.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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