Bad news... back in the same situation... Our 2012 R2 deployements are failing again.
After the image is applied, the server is rebooted into the installed OS... when typing dism /online /get-features we get the same error again:
Error:0x800f0805
The specified package is not valid Windows package.
In smstslog, there are no errors while applying the image, only after reboot we see that the image is corrupt. This results in the fact that dism fails, no pachtes are visible and setup.log is corrupt... I already tried to restore health via dism, it states
that errors are fixes but nothing gets fixed.
I tested for a week on physical machines without any issues (with the image captured from november DVD). On friday 16/01 we started deploying VM's again because everything seemed fine, but the 2 new VM's failed. For some odd reason, our test VM's still succeed
(which already exist for a long time)!
After we saw the VM's failing, we tried the physical machines again... which also failed then.
We have created new VM's with the exact same config as the test vm's but can't figure out for what reason the OSD failes or succeeds.
We moved our DP's to other ESXes, moved our VM's around, but there was no consistency in the fail/no fail.
The first time I succeeded to install a new VM was when I removed the VNIC of a failing VM, and added a new one again.
Last week, I again created a new package with the same captured image, again it was working. Now, after the weekend, it is failing again.
I think in total we did about 50 installations in different scenarios, but still no clue what is going wrong. It feels like something is going wrong on the network....
Time to open a case at Microsoft?