Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. You can use Audit mode to customize your computer, add applications and device drivers, and test your computer in a Windows environment.
If a password-protected screen saver starts when you are in audit mode, you cannot log back on to the system. The built-in administrator account that is used to log on to audit mode is immediately disabled after logon. To disable the screen saver, either change the power plan through Windows Control Panel or configure and deploy a custom plan. For more information, see Create a Custom Power Plan. When Windows completes the installation process, the computer boots into audit mode automatically, and the System Preparation Sysprep Tool appears.
For more information about using the Sysprep tool in audit mode, see Sysprep Generalize a Windows installation.
Settings in an answer file from the oobeSystem configuration pass do not appear in audit mode. Windows reboots the computer into audit mode, and the System Preparation Sysprep Tool appears. If you have configured your Windows image to boot to OOBE, but then you need to make further configurations to your image in audit mode, see Modify an existing image that is configured to boot to OOBE.
If you are having unsuccessful attempts at exiting audit mode and getting "fatal error messages", the following is what I did that worked: Type regedit in the windows search bar and press enter.
Below is a picture of the navigation and the corrected value from a working system:. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this discussion? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This was the only thing that worked for me, I have been struggling with this or over a month. Hopefuly I will now be able to get W Since WU is not usable in Audit Mode, there is another way to get updates from the internet to update your Windows image for deployment.
For starters you need to download the following Powershell Module:. Anyway I hope this helps some of you who have probably been pulling your hair out over this, hopefully Microsoft will resolve this in the future and not just leave us with some BS excuse as to why this functionality was removed in Windows 8. I was able to reproduce the issue in my virtual environment.
To understand more about this behavior, I engaged the Product Group and I have been informed that this behavior is By Design. This problem has always existed. This is the reason that updates from WU UIs are blocked in audit mode. I was having the same exact issue when creating an updated WDS image for deployment to select end-users for testing. At first, I thought I was doing something wrong. And it worked perfectly with Windows 8. Why did Microsoft choose to deprecate the functionality is beyond me.
Now it seems that Microsoft, once again, is hades bent on destroying all that was good with Windows. So this was a problem? I don't ever recall that happening to me or ever reading about such an issue. Even if this "issue" was a problem, why not just add another switch to the sysprep command to allow admins to specify the allowance of updates.
Is that too hard or too much to ask? So now with the current Windows-won't-update-in-audit-mode default, if I chose to deploy over Windows 8. Not to mention there is always several machines that never act right. Instead of having identically configured machines, I end up with similarly configured machines.
Exactly who is making these decisions? Couldn't agree more with Darien. We utilize several virtual computers for reference comptuers for MDT. We update the images quarterly, snapshot the machines, capture, and then revert to allow us to do so again next quarter.
This designed behavior is going to cause exactly the issue Darien reported. Doesn't make a lot of sense. It was originally designed for bypassing the Windows Genuine Advantage in XP so you could still do updates before activation. There may be unknown future issues. I believe I found a work around that seems to be working for me. I installed a PowerShell module that does windows updates.
But at step 4 where you get to see all the files in that module, I'm getting nothing but a new command line. Also make sure you are running as an Admin. This can be done by first copying the zip file to the local computer. Go to the zip file properties and select unblock, then Apply.
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