The "Prepare for image capture" stays on "waiting for agent to get the task"indefinitely or until it times-out
The SMA on the client machine gets the task
Sysprep runs for few seconds and then it stops without returning any error message to the SMA/Console
When running Sysprep manually on the client,
C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /quiet /generalize /oobe /quit
we are prompted with the following error:
at this stage the client has probably been kicked out from the Domain and put into a Workgroup.
FIX:
1 - implement the workaround at page 15 of the release notes below:
http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC7940
2 - Run instructions at article below( please ignore the three times count, it seems that with W8 and W8.1 you have to run this process each time after running sysprep):
3 - test the job from the console
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if still having issues please check sysprep logs at client machine folder:
\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Panther
- setupact.log
- setuperr.log
NOTE:
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