Hands-on VM testing showed auto-apply skipped the app picker entirely -- the user
couldn't review/adjust apps before install. Land first-run on the Apps step instead
(pre-checked with the collector flavour's defaults); the user adjusts then walks
Apps -> Prefs -> Apply -> Done. The collector already owns account + flavour, so
Welcome/Flavour are skipped. Reverses the earlier auto-apply behavior per operator
feedback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The boot.wim Setup\CmdLine override (legacy-Setup forcing) is authoritative over
winpeshl.ini, so it launched setup.exe directly and the collector never ran -- the
VM went straight to the old sm-bootstrap unattended install. Repoint Setup\CmdLine
at the collector (cmd /c X:\sm\Start-Collector.cmd); the collector still launches the
legacy X:\sources\setup.exe itself. Add wpeinit + an on-screen banner, and write any
collector/WinForms-load failure to X:\sm\collector-error.txt shown on the console
before falling back, so we can diagnose WinForms-in-WinPE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The boot.wim now carries WinPE-NetFx/PowerShell (collector), growing the image ~0.4GB,
and each build persists a ~5GB ISO to C:\silvermetal\out. On the single-volume runner
that accumulation starved oscdimg ('Insufficient disk space'). Clear prior output +
stale smbuild work dirs at job start so free space self-heals each run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Welcome wizard showed nothing until WebView2 cold-started and Blazor
booted, so the whole startup cost presented as a blank window long enough
that operators thought first boot had failed.
- Native MAUI splash overlay (renders in the first frame, no WebView2/JIT
dependency) + a visually identical in-page splash inside #app, so the
native -> webview -> Blazor handoff reads as one continuous loading
screen. Fades out on first successful WV2 NavigationCompleted.
- PublishReadyToRun=true (publish-only) to remove first-run JIT on the
one-shot cold-disk path. R2R header verified present after publish.
- Fixed-version WebView2 runtime baked offline next to the exe (build.ps1
stages it, app points WEBVIEW2_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE_FOLDER at it). Removes
the Evergreen registry probe and the LTSC "no WebView2 at all" risk flagged
in welcome-app-spec.md; air-gap friendly. Absent => falls back to Evergreen.
- De-flash launch: drop the `cmd /c` wrapper and add -WindowStyle Hidden in
autounattend FirstLogonCommands (kills the console flash + one process).
Verified: Release build clean, win-x64 self-contained publish succeeds with
R2R confirmed, 38/38 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On IoT LTSC winget is absent, so Process.Start('winget') throws Win32Exception
('cannot find the file specified') rather than returning non-zero. That throw
propagated out of InstallAsync and failed the entire Apply ('Configuration failed').
AppInstaller is now fully exception-safe: a TryRunAsync wrapper converts launch
throws into a failed run, winget is resolved defensively (PATH -> bootstrap+re-probe
-> WindowsApps alias path) and when unavailable the installer skips apps and marks
them not-installed instead of throwing. Per-app launch throws are isolated too.
Two new tests cover probe-throws-skips and per-app-throw-isolated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Assert-IsoStructure.ps1 reused a fixed mount dir; a prior aborted run left a WIM
mounted there, so Mount-WindowsImage failed with 'directory is not empty' and the
persist-to-stable-path step was skipped (no ISO deployed). Now discards stale mounts
+ clears corrupt mount points + uses a unique per-run mount dir (mirrors build.ps1
Stage 0), and removes the dir after. Also asserts apps/catalog.json baked into the WIM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Insert AppsStep as wizard index 2 (renumbering Account/Prefs/Apply/Done
to 3-6), load the app catalog alongside flavours, seed the per-role
default selection on entering the step, and register IAppCatalog in DI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live e2e: in the sm-bootstrap session the taskbar showed and Win/Start worked.
- Keyboard Filter EXEMPTS administrators by default and sm-bootstrap is an admin, so
Win/Start/Alt-Tab etc. were never blocked. Set WEKF_Settings
DisableKeyboardFilterForAdministrators=false so the filter applies to it.
- Auto-hide the taskbar (default-user StuckRects3, inherited by sm-bootstrap) so it
doesn't peek over the fullscreen wizard.
- TearDownAsync now Disable-LocalUser's sm-bootstrap in-session (immediate) so it's
unusable at once; the deferred SYSTEM task still deletes it on next boot (SAM-confirmed
the delete works now).
Verified: Configure-Kiosk parses under Windows PowerShell 5.1 (ASCII-clean); welcome 29/29.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found by reading the unencrypted VM disk after run #7:
1. Online branding never ran: Apply-Branding.ps1 had a UTF-8 em-dash in a Write-Warning
STRING; Windows PowerShell 5.1 (SetupComplete) reads .ps1 as ANSI, mangled it, broke
the string terminator -> whole script failed to parse -> lock/login/wallpaper branding
never re-applied. Fix: ASCII-ify the em-dash AND save the branding scripts UTF-8-with-BOM
so PS5.1 always decodes them correctly (verified parses under PS5.1 + PS7).
2. sm-bootstrap never removed: TearDownAsync used schtasks /tr with an inline -EncodedCommand,
which silently fails past the ~261-char /tr limit, so the cleanup task was never created
(confirmed NO_TASK on disk). Fix: Register-ScheduledTask (no length limit).
3. Done step: show a QR code of the BitLocker recovery key (QRCoder) for phone backup, and
lay key+QR side-by-side so the Restart button no longer overflows below the fold.
Verified: welcome solution builds, 29/29 tests; branding Pester 6/6 unit (offline-integration
needs elevation, runs in CI).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- BitLocker: remove -SkipHardwareTest so BitLocker validates the TPM+PIN unseal via
its hardware test on the next reboot (the wizard's end-of-flow reboot) before
encrypting — fixes the E_FVE_SECURE_BOOT_CHANGED / PCR-11 drop-to-recovery on the
first post-enroll boot. The PIN now works first time instead of needing recovery.
- Done step now DISPLAYS the 48-digit BitLocker recovery key (read from the file the
enrollment saves) with a 'save this' warning — previously it was never surfaced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VM e2e findings on the real-user desktop:
1. Lock/login screen + wallpaper NOT branded (OEM About WAS) — Windows resets the
offline-baked personalization (PersonalizationCSP / default-user wallpaper / FVE)
during OOBE, same class as the UAC reset. Fix: stage windows/branding/ into the
image and re-run Apply-Branding -Mode Online from SetupComplete (post-OOBE, as
SYSTEM) where it sticks. OEM About re-asserted harmlessly.
2. sm-bootstrap account still present after onboarding — TearDownAsync's in-session
Remove-LocalUser no-ops (can't delete the account you're logged in as). Fix: keep
the best-effort in-session attempt, but DEFER the real removal to a SYSTEM
AtStartup scheduled task that runs on next boot (sm-bootstrap not logged on),
removes the account + Win32_UserProfile, then deletes itself.
(Network 'no adapter' in the VM was a Proxmox NIC-model regression to virtio — fixed
by switching the VM to Intel e1000; not a SilverMetal change.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VM e2e: full wizard ran end-to-end and enrolled TPM+PIN, but BitLockerService only
created TPM+PIN with NO recovery protector — a forgotten/mistyped PIN bricks the
drive (hit exactly that on the VM). Add a RecoveryPassword protector and save the
48-digit key to ProgramData AND the unencrypted EFI System Partition (readable even
when the OS volume is locked, e.g. for offline recovery/verification).
PRODUCT TODO (follow-up): escrow the recovery key to SilverSync + display it in the
wizard's Done step so the end-user records it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
