After resolving the issue, use Sysprep to validate your installation again.” Microsoft has a dedicated support page that describes how to check if your computers were affected by the sysprep.exe issue ...

The System Preparation Tool, also known as Sysprep, is a utility used by system administrators and IT professionals in Microsoft Windows. Its main purpose is to prepare and configure Windows operating ...

And when/how do you use it? I see lots of references to running it before you make an image to be rolled out to multiple machines, but am unclear in exactly what it does or why it should be run. This ...