Sysprep Failing after Updating Windows 8.1 Apps

This week I’ve been making the final updates to the reference image for laptops to the library’s educational program involving Minecraft and other games for kids. However after laying in the last set of Windows updates and other applications, Sysprep failed and logged the error Package was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users.

From the error log, it appeared that a Store app was causing a blocking failure. This was odd, because I hadn’t once launched the Store nor side-loaded any apps. Further, all the work was done on the builtin account with which the Store cannot even be used.

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