Thanks once again Kari. I'll share my observations.

Works like a Charm.!
I am setting it up for academic public systems where I am looking to setup deepfreeze. Would you suggest installing it before sysprep or after?
Regards,
Devanshu

Thanks Kari, that worked.!!
I do not want an admin account to be visible up front - should I just skip the entire part:


<UserAccounts>
<LocalAccounts>
...

Thanks a lot, Kari.
I'll remove the synchronous commands, compare with your file and check once again.
Meanwhile, do the steps I mentioned seemed correct - I tried once again by adding a step:...

After the administrator details were removed, the system gave a blank error message followed by an error message saying - Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this...

Thanks, I'll try that and post the update here in 12 hours

This is what I have updated to - using parts of previous file I have posted


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings...

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