OSD Win11 25H2 blue screens

We have HP Elitebooks were deploying images to, previous capture was 23H2 and it was a seamless deploy, but the bigfix client was over a year old and now we’re on 25H2 so it was time to make a new capture.

I managed to finally capture a 25H2 image but something i noticed is that there is this annoying “Why did my PC restart” message and our techs have to hit NEXT 2-6 times before it gets to the desktop and domain joins. You do get a glimpse of the process and see what looks like its attempting an update. This is on a closed off imaging network in addition which will do PXE booting.

I tried to recreate a new capture thinking the last one might have been mid update but same scenario, we are using recycled images from 23H2 because a brand new windows 11 pro iso fails to join to intune.

11.0.6 root server, the latest OSD server we have running here. Same model device, all models do this but the capture and test deploy are an Elitebook X G2i. Claude suggests this might be due to an Unattended.xml file allowing windows to do updates (which on a freshly deployed machine is at C:Windows\Panther) but when I tried to mount the WIM, I dont see the same unattended.xml file

Anyone know about this issue? is it simply just allowing windows updates to go thru the firewall in this subnet?

Hello,

If this issue occurs across different computer models, it is unlikely to be caused by model-specific drivers.

What build/patch level of the Windows 11 25H2 image is currently being used? Have you tested whether the issue persists with the latest refreshed image (August 2026)?

Thanks
Sergio
BigFix OSD L3 support

We just tested Win11 10.0.26200.9278 captured with latest patches from 2 weeks ago and its still trying to force an update and error out with our techs having to click “Next” multiple times. They’ve had to resort to disconnecting the ethernet USB dongle to get past this screen, but then domain join fails later.