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Windows: Removing Appx failed with 0x80070032: This app is part of Windows and cannot be uninstalled on a per-user basis.

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since the latest Edge updates an Appx Package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge is installed on a “per user basis”.
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Windows: Sysprep error “Machine is in an invalid state or we couldn’t update the recorded state.”

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when during the execution of sysprep the error message “A fatal error occured while trying to sysprep machine” is shown check the setupact.log and setuperr.log in “C:\windows\system32\sysprep\panther”.
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Windows: Sysprep fails with “Package xy installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users”

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when you call sysprep and it fails (logfile C:\windows\System32\sysprep\panther\setuperr.log) with an error “Package xy installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users” you have to remove those packages from the user profile.

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Windows 10: Powershell Script to protect your privacy

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this Powershell script is a try to protect your privacy in Windows 10.
Update 17.08.2016: Lot of adjustment to Windows 10 1607. Added more documentation
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VMware: Computer Account is disabled after deploying Windows Clients

Hello,

last week I had to deploy 25virtual Windows (XP) Clients an on VMware ESX Cluster. One of the requirements was that the clients must be member of a Windows Active Directory.

After setting up vCenter (copy sysprep) I installed a reference Windows XP vm, convert them to a template and defined a Customization Specification like this:

Initial Customization Specification
Initial Customization Specification

During the cloning process, by using the template with the recently created custom spec, the domain join always fails and the Computer Account was disabled at each try.

Ok, now I tried modify some parameter of the Custom Specification:

  • Changing the Domain from fqdn to the NetBIOS Domain “SUB”
  • Altered the Username to SUB\joinuser or joinuser@SUB or joinuser@sub.domain.org

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