I ran into a situation recently where I noticed that one of my 2008 R2 SP1 templates would simply not complete or really even start it’s sysprep after deploying. Honestly, I spent a lot of time fiddling with my customization, ensuring I had the correct username’s and passwords, along with checking that I was using the actual fqdn. None of this helped! Also, I was very adamant about reviewing the sysprep logs – you know c:\Windows\Panther – the setupact and setuperr files, these really didn’t give me any indication of what was wrong. However, the same files, located this time at c:\Windows\system32\sysprep\Panther did 🙂 Are you kidding me?!?!?
Either way, that didn’t matter – I just wanted to rant about having the same files located in two different spots for a bit. After located the correct file I did find an error message about why sysprep was not completing.
“SysPRP LaunchDLL: Could not load DLL C:\Windows\SysWOW64\iesysprep.dll”
Ohhh, that’s why!!! Aha moment – no, not really, I had to google this one – which pointed me to here – Huge props to whomever sgennadi is – I wish I could log into technet and give you points!!!
/Facepalm – Once again the update of a browser has failed me. It appears that upon updating to IE 10 some registry changes occur that cause sysprep to, well, fall flat on its’ face. I’m sure a wondrous Tuesday patch will come out to address this ( and break something else ) – but in the meantime, if you are strapped and need to get some work done, the following registry changes worked for me …
First off grant the local Administrators group Full Control over the following spots within the registry
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[HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Cleanup |
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[HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Generalize |
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[HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Specialize |
And modify the following values…
[HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Cleanup
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Key - {EC9FE15D-99DD-4FB9-90D5-5B56E42A0F80} |
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Oldval - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\iesysprep.dll,Sysprep_Cleanup_IE |
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NewVal - C:\Windows\System32\iesysprep.dll,Sysprep_Cleanup_IE |
[HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Generalize
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Key - {EC9FE15D-99DD-4FB9-90D5-CE53C91AB9A1} |
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OldVal - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\iesysprep.dll,Sysprep_Generalize_IE |
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NewVal - C:\Windows\System32\iesysprep.dll,Sysprep_Cleanup_IE |
[HKLM]\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Specialize
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Key - {EC9FE15D-99DD-4FB9-90D5-676C338DC1DA} |
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OldVal - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\iesysprep.dll,Sysprep_Cleanup_IE |
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NewVal - C:\Windows\System32\iesysprep.dll,Sysprep_Cleanup_IE |
Hopefully this finds it’s way into your browser if you are experiencing the same issues! Ugh! I loathe Internet Explorer 🙂
