WDS Image Capture Wizard Stalls

Hi- Single Site, single domain. I have WDS running on Windows Server 2012 Standard. Have been using WDS for quite a while now without issue. Created a new image from scratch, applied all updates, installed apps.

Ran sysprep (successful) and rebooted to initiate an image capture. Selected the volume, selected the WDS server, and storage group. Ran Net Use to map a network drive to copy the image file to. Capture started and gets to 28% and then stalls. Left it overnight and still at 28%. Tried it twice with the same results.

What's going on here? Where should I look to find info on what the cause might be?

August 26th, 2015 3:31pm

Hi SteveSmo,

Please first confirm there have enough space on the WDS server in remote install folder and tried creating a new capture.wim to narrow down the issue, many times it may is the sysprep image seemed  corrupted, if all above steps not work please refer the following KB to enable the WDS logging then post the abnormal log.

The related KB:

How to enable logging in Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and in Windows Server 2012

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/936625

Im glad to be of help to you!

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August 31st, 2015 2:01am

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