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SYSPREP + 1709 = OOBE stuck at logon screen with "defaultuser0"
First of all, I strongly recommend using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to build and capture the image, it has built-in fixes for common issues.
That being said, the November 2017 CU seems to have fixed the OOBE issues in 1709, and to get Cortana to stop annoying you (and others), you can set a registry key during OS deployment.
Keith has a good post here:
https://keithga.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/silence-is-golden-during-setup
I have a script you can add to a MDT task sequence here: https://github.com/DeploymentResearch/DRFiles/blob/master/Scripts/Config-DisableCortana.wsf
And, Anton has a post here on using that script: http://www.vacuumbreather.com/index.php/blog/item/60-disabling-cortana-voice-support-during-oobe
I am having exactly this same issue. Did you solve it?
No, we can't seem to get passed this issue regardless of what we've tried.