Problem:

Recently after running sysprep on a Windows 7 I was greeted with the message “Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass….”

I was not tring to use an unattended answer file at the time so a bit of a strange messge.

Problem:

When tring to perform a image capture of a Windows 7 client using a SCCM 2007 CD I received the message “Task Sequence: Image Capture Wizard has failed with error code (0x80004005)….”

Also when I tried to run Sysprep.exe manually from C:\Windows\System32\sysprep I received the error “A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine”

By default when a new user is created in Active Directory the object will be created under the top level User container (CN=User), similarly when a computer is created it will be created in the top level Computers container (CN=Computers).

If you would like to change this behaviour then this is how.

Note: Your domain functional level must be at at least Windows Server 2003'

First create your desired Organisational Units for both Users and Computers.