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I am using MDT 2012 Update 1. Attempting to Deploy 2012 DC to a VM, run windows updates, and then sysprep/capture that image. This is the same task sequence process I have used for Windows 7 / 2008 R2 and it works fine.

However, for 2012 DC it deploys the image, starts running/installing updates and then runs sysprep and on reboot it goes to a "Choose an option" screen if I choose "Exit and continue to Windows Server 2012" it reboots and goes back to same screen.
Any ideas?

Choose an option screen

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  • This screen is the WinRE for OS recovery, I'm just not understanding when/how its getting applied and why the OS that was functional beforehand stops functioning.
    – floyd
    Dec 9, 2012 at 5:26
  • How are you running the "capture"? Dec 11, 2012 at 16:35
  • I am running MDT's default capture task sequence. My entire task sequence can be seen here if needed: dl.dropbox.com/u/46718/www/files/ts.xml
    – floyd
    Dec 11, 2012 at 18:01
  • If I understand correctly you are using one task sequence to deploy, updates and then sysprep and capture? Dec 11, 2012 at 18:33
  • That is correct. Same sequence I have been using for 2008 R2 and Windows 7 to create images for deployment.
    – floyd
    Dec 11, 2012 at 18:35

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I ran into the same problem yesterday with Windows 8.

It seems as though the problem might be related to a patch that gets installed that doesn't make the Windows Update client do a reboot after installation.

To solve (or rather work around) the problem, I opened the Task Sequence and in the "Custom Tasks" folder after the second Windows Update task, I added a "Restart computer" task.

You may want to give this a try.

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You may not be able to use the same unattended.xml answer file for both Win7 and ServerOS. You would need to use WISM to build a new answer file specific for that OS. I would highly recomend using a different task sequence for the server builds and deploys. Futhermore, are you building this image in VM? If not, you're wasting time. Always, Always, Always, build your images in a VM.

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