[DISCUSSION] Windows 11 Enterprise/IoT Enterprise (N) LTSC 2024 (24H2 / 26100.x)

IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 = Got all the way to rebooting and running the final setup stuff and was at the booting back up stage when "Windows 11 Installation Failed".

Well, I guess that saves me some time. Don't bother trying to help me with it, don't care. I was just going to take a look at it and see if I might be able to tolerate it at all in the LTSC flavor (unlike original 11 version /spit). Probably still something to do with my using legacy BIOS (CSM) mode, MBR disks, no TPM, Secure Boot, etc. etc.

 

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installed in vm, running smoothly and all apps open instantly - no problems so far

disabled/removed: Edge, Defender, Telemetry, SmartScreen, updates, useless scheduled tasks and services, searchui, indexer, replaced host file with custom blocks.



custom made AutoHotkey quick launch bar

 

Last

Last build is .1150

 

In brief you could have said "use the Win11 24H2 Italian eval ISO files to get Italian only ISO setup" and that looks like a good idea.
But I found those commands in W10MUI script that can be used after removing unwanted language to get a very close result:

Code:

dism /Image:<mounted WIM> /Set-AllIntl:it-IT
dism /Image:<mounted WIM> /Set-SKUIntlDefaults:it-IT
dism /Image:<mounted WIM> /Gen-LangINI /Distribution:<DVD folder>
dism /Image:<mounted WIM> /Set-SetupUILang:it-IT /Distribution:<DVD folder>
(change it-IT with your default settings)

and afterward delete the unwanted LP folders from the ISO (in my case I don't need en-US language, so I deleted all en-US folders in the ISO sources folder)
And I found a little problem with your procedure: doing like you said you will overwrite the ISO files updated by W10UI (contained in W10MUI Updates folder) with vanilla files from eval ISO, so you should better do:
- delete the Updates folder in W10MUI to install only the LPs
- then doing your procedure*
- and at last running W10UI to update everything

*at this point you should get a vanilla (non-updated) ISO in your language, where you can apply directly any future updates, without touching the languages settings anymore.

 

26100.1.240331-1435.ge_release_CLIENT_ENTERPRISES_OEM_x64FRE_en-us.iso

Windows sandbox doesnt install on this version.
After restart it says:

"Something didn't go as planned. Going back to your previous version. Please keep your device on."

I tried windows ltsc 2021 and windows 11 pro with same bios settings and it installs on them.

 

There's a bug report on the feedback hub about that. Unfortunately, I'm running LTSC without the feedback hub so I cant link it (the irony). It misses some files in C:\Windows\Servicing\Packages\ if I remember correctly. It's not a you bug, it's a MS bug. The actual true error is in your cbs.log.

 

Which version should I get IoT LTSC or regular LTSC ? What are the differences ?

 

Strange. Ltsc its suposed to be stable. How they failed to test this simple feature?

 

But this isnt a specific scenario bug. It could be detected by just runing it once before publishing the iso.

 

Well, by simply stating that Windows Sandbox is only supported for Pro, Enterprise, Pro Education/SE and Education. And that's exactly why the installation fails, it expects some files related to the Pro version. They'll probably make it work eventually, just like @Enthousiast mentioned.

I do remember with W10 LTSC that the IoT version did not support Sandbox, but the normal LTSC did. For IoT, you could work around the issue to get it working. Not sure where @Enthousiast timeline comes into play regarding this. I just moved on to a VM for tasks where I needed a sandbox.

 

How can I disable Defender, Telemetry, SmartScreen, useless scheduled tasks and services, searchui, indexer?

Thanks.

 

See if this works for you
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...lemetry-repository.63874/page-66#post-1686849