The keepMachineSid image built and had everything right in the registry --
account, profile on D:, RDP enabled, MountedDevices intact -- but booted to a
black screen with no services. The shipped image was set to run windeploy.exe
(OOBE) on every boot: SetupType=2, OOBEInProgress=1, CmdLine=oobe\windeploy.exe.
On the target there is no unattend left for it to consume, so it hangs.
The cause is our shutdown in FirstLogonCommands. It cuts OOBE off before
windeploy finalizes and resets that Setup state itself. The /generalize path
finalizes it through its own specialize->oobe cycle; /oobe alone does not, so
the flags are left set. Clearing them in post-oobe, only under keepMachineSid,
sends the target straight to logon. The default /generalize path is untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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