PENDING OSDTargetSystemRoot / (AND) variables evaluated to be false

[MrYanL]

When attempting to capture a manually sysprep'd image, I receive....



and a little further down the SMSTS (even though the only step enabled in TS was to capture and it already failed above)....



If I create a Build & Capture default TS, it will deploy and capture successfully (no image modifications, just a base win10 or win11 install, then captured)....




-Machine is not domain joined
-OSDTargetSystemRoot has been set to "C:\Windows" (see diskpart image above for confirmation of "C:\" and not "D:\". "D:\" was tried however for testing. Made no difference, messages were the same in SMSTS)
Any help or insight / suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

[MrYanL]

Update: Have not been able to capture only straight from PXE, but as workaround, created TS capture media and can successfully capture when starting the process from within the OS and letting the TS do the sysprep.

process found here: https://www.prajwaldesai.com/how-to-capture-an-image-from-a-reference-computer-manually/

Before upgrading ADK & SCCM, I was able to manually sysprep and then PXE to a capture sequence. Frustrating that once updated it just stopped working, but as mentioned, solution above is working.