Imaging HP Thin Client with SCCM Task Sequence

[Cacophony]

I captured an image from a HP t520 Thin Client (Windows 7 Embedded) and all seemed to go well, until I'm now trying to deploy it via Task Sequence from a boot disk.

The TC boots into PE and the TS seems to run fine and gets through all of it's steps then reboots. That's when I get this error: (See attached image)

Any ideas? I pulled the smsts.log from X:\Windows\Temp right before the reboot and everything seems to look good in there. I'm pulling out what is left of my hair over here!

[Cacophony]

Seems this has something to do with EWF... This from C:\Windows\Panther\setupact.log after that error occurs.

2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info       [0x0f008b] SYSPRP RunRegistryDlls:Found entrypoint in registry at SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SysPrep\Specialize\{afc4e571-4b1d-095e-190d-477c783cd71b}; will try to launch 'C:\Windows\System32\ewfcfg.dll,EwfSysprepSpecialize'
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info       [0x0f0080] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Found 'C:\Windows\System32\ewfcfg.dll,EwfSysprepSpecialize'; executing it
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: EwfSysprepSpecialize ---
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: SMI volume data empty.
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: Need default config: FALSE
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: ConfigureEwf() Start.
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: ======== Examining: System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EWF\Cached ========
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: EwfMode = 1
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: Attempt to retrieve BootStatusPolicy failed, hr=0x80070002
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: Attempt to retrieve DisableDefragSvc failed with status=2
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: ProtectBcdPartition = 0
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: Key 1 , PVDisk = 0
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: Key 1 , PVPart = 1
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: Key 1 , EnableLazyWrite = 0
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: GetSMIParametersEx: Key 1 , PVOptimize = 0
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: Defragment Service is disabled.
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: DisableDefragSvc success
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: DeleteEwfPartitions: Skipping removable disk (diskNumber = 1)
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: Disk #0 layout info:
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: Disk #1 layout info:
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: PRIMARY partition,start=0x0000000000100000, len=0x0000000744d00000, type= 12 
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: DeleteEwfPartitions: Skipping removable disk (diskNumber = 1)
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: Failed to create EWF partition.
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  SYSPRP WFCFG: ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x80070057.
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Error      [0x0f0082] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Failure occurred while executing 'C:\Windows\System32\ewfcfg.dll,EwfSysprepSpecialize', returned error code -2147024809
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  IBS    Callback_Specialize: Internal Providers Specialized Failed. System can't proceed to handle Internal Providers
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info                  IBS    Callback_Specialize: Specialize return: [-2147024809]
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Error      [0x060435] IBS    Callback_Specialize: An error occurred while either deciding if we need to specialize or while specializing; dwRet = 0x80070057
2016-06-21 14:51:14, Info       [0x0640ae] IBSLIB PublishMessage: Publishing message [Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware.]
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x070042] DIAG   CallBack_DiagnosticDataSend: Called with notification for Error published by ErrorHandler
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info                  DIAG   CallBack_DiagnosticDataSend: Setup was started from Phase 4. Disabling Diagnostics [DiagnosticDataSend] in this scenario
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x090095] PANTHR WdsExitImmediate called!  Execution will stop, and the queue won't be saved.
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info                  IBS    Callback_Specialize: Exit.
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x09008c] PANTHR SeqExecute -- stopping, since WdsExitImmediate() was called
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x090086] PANTHR pWorkerThreadFunc -- Stopping
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x090086] PANTHR pWorkerThreadFunc -- Stopping
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x090086] PANTHR pWorkerThreadFunc -- Stopping
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info                  PANTHR DeleteCriticalSection for pExecQueue->csLock;
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x0605a6] IBS    Requested UI to hide the language and locale selection pages.
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x090081] PANTHR Destroying any unreferenced modules! (SEQ6)
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x0601d7] IBS    InstallWindows:Error Type = 3211266
2016-06-21 14:51:30, Info       [0x090009] PANTHR CBlackboard::Close: c:\windows\panther\setupinfo.

[Cacophony]

Has anybody had any success with OSD and EWF?

[Michael A.]

I'm having the exact same issue with an HP T620 Thin Client.

 

I've seen many articles on the web regarding different issues regarding partitioning and UEFI on these devices.

 

Did you find a solution?

[Djenzen]

I'm also having the same issue with a HP t630 thin client using Windows 10 LTSB. I would like to be able to use the quarterly released HP image (ibr file), customize, capture and deploy it to all thin client machines. The capture process seems to work OK (after disabling the UWF) but the deployment fails at the step Cacophony describes.

I've followed steps in HP documentation found on http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04920485 but this doesn't help.

I've also tried using MBR and GPT with BIOS and UEFI modes. Still no luck.