Windows – Applying OOBE to captured WIM

There is too much in this response to put as a comment, so I have to put this as an answer even though it doesn't address the errors you are getting in your OP: You could update your image offline using DISM however, you would have to download all of the updates that you want to install.

Since you are using MDT, this exact process can be done by importing all of the updates as packages and MDT runs the proper DISM scripts during deployment (again, you have to download all the updates manually), or you can enable the ‘Windows Update (Pre-Application Installation)’ or ‘Windows Update (Post-Application Installation)’ item(s) that are disabled by default in the Standard Client Task Sequence template to have the system run Windows Update during deployment. If you have WSUS setup in your environment, you can get the updates from that during the deployment. This blog post details all 3 of these methods of maintaining an updated image.

Hope this helps,

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David

Windows Outreach Team - IT Pro

My problem was being caused by a sysprep failure - the rearm count on my image had quietly bounced up to 2 due to carelessness.

What's strange is that such a huge failure in the process generated no obvious red flags. I really had to dig to find the problem. The sysprep failure cascaded into a dozen other problems that were all red herrings. Working my way backwards finally gave up the answer.