I have spent hours on this... tried numerous other suggestions on the
'net and found an interesting fact. Still need to open a MS case but
here's what I have so far (long story made short). Using virtual
software took a snapshot of a fairly clean and WORKING installation of
Vista (many packages were installed but as you'll see that makes no
difference here).
We make several hacks so worked to exclude them as variables and
narrow it down, made a snapshot. The issue was finally narrowed down
to using Imagex with maximum compression. Specifying compression of
none and fast both work without causing an issue post-image and
installations. Only when maximum compression is used does the post-
image fail to install any packages with the subject keywords as a
result.
Just prior to executing every test, reverted the image back to the
same point (point just prior to executing sysprep). At this point
installing packages works fine. (These test installs are not part of
the final product -- they're removed by reverting back to the
snapshot).
Hope this helps others suffering this issue and when/if get anything
in working with MS will provide additional feedback.
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