Offline OSD going to Interactive logon process initialization has failed

[Deilson Oliveira]

I created an offline media of the Windows 20H2, where I have two Windows version options, I'll call version A and version B

Version A: is a standard task sequence, which disables the bitlocker, partitions the disk, installs install.wim, installs the configuration manager, restarts, then adds 3 programs, which are: 7Zip, Adobe and Notepad++, and finishes

Version B: identical to version A, but without 7zip.

The most bizarre thing is that in version B, everything works without a problem. But in version A, at the end of the Task Sequence (NOTE: I use TSBackground, but that's not the problem, otherwise it would affect both versions) the success screen appears, and I click the Finish button, and then I go to a screen blue (not the BSOD) saying: "Sign-in process initialization failure, Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details."

How is this possible if the difference between them is just 7zip? This screen does not corrupt the system, it only appears once, restarts, and I can log in again without any problems, and 7Zip is still there without any problem, and consulting the smsts.log, 7Zip is terminated with Exit Code 0. This error does not interfere with nothing, but it bothers me a lot, even more that I will distribute this system to more than 2,000 machines, everyone will have doubts about this screen, and this is not pleasant to leave showing. I googled it, but it seems that it happens when it really corrupts the system, in my case it doesn't, it shows up once, but I wanted to understand why the hell it shows up because of a 7Zip (already tested it with msi version, exe, old version, version new, and etc and with no result, I tried to put another program in place, like CCleaner for example and it causes the same result)

I created an offline media, where I have two Windows version options, I'll call version A and version B

Version A: is a standard task sequence, which disables the bitlocker, partitions the disk, installs install.wim, installs the configuration manager, restarts, then adds 3 programs, which are: 7Zip, Adobe and Notepad++, and finishes

Version B: identical to version A, but without 7zip.

The most bizarre thing is that in version B, everything works without a problem. But in version A, at the end of the Task Sequence (NOTE: I use TSBackground, but that's not the problem, otherwise it would affect both versions) the success screen appears, and I click the Finish button, and then I go to a screen blue (not the BSOD) saying: "Sign-in process initialization failure, Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details."

How is this possible if the difference between them is just 7zip? This screen does not corrupt the system, it only appears once, restarts, and I can log in again without any problems, and 7Zip is still there without any problem, and consulting the smsts.log, 7Zip is terminated with Exit Code 0. This error does not interfere with nothing, but it bothers me a lot, even more that I will distribute this system to more than 2,000 machines, everyone will have doubts about this screen, and this is not pleasant to leave showing. I googled it, but it seems that it happens when it really corrupts the system, in my case it doesn't, it shows up once, but I wanted to understand why the hell it shows up because of a 7Zip (already tested it with msi version, exe, old version, version new, and etc and with no result, I tried to put another program in place, like CCleaner for example and it causes the same result)

(Note, the 2004 version I've never seen this happen and it's the same Task Sequence, I just changed install.wim to the new 20H2 version)