It's still not working 100%. Copy profile does appear to propagate settings, but I get a strange "DefaultUser0' account.
When I use an unattend that has an 'add user' section, that account also does...

I'm going to move the answer file from where it was in our older Windows 7 image into Sys32\Sysprep and see if it behaves.

I'm basing some of this from the work of a previous admin, sorry. We...

It is not making the account. I looked in the setup actions/errors files and there are none, but I'm still prompted to make one and the account name in the answer file is not present anywhere.
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One thing I just stumbled upon by trial and error -- if I do the 'local account' addition in auditSystem (pass 5) instead of oobeSystem (pass 7), the error message goes away.

It baffles me why...

Yes, thank you very much, in advance!


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

Now if only WSIM would stop validating, but then producing an error when I hit save.

Trying to add a local account. When I add it to oobeSystem, put in the name and the password and hit validate...

I have read quite a few of Kari's posts/articles regarding Windows 10 Unattend files and I am curious why exactly the answer file has to have an offline image 'source' in it. Does this tell setup...