We updated our Windows 7 image the other week as it hadn't been touched in some time, mainly to install later security patches and also to upgrade the 7.5 agent to version 8.
This image deploys correctly and then the upgrade policies apply and upgrade all components to version 8.0.
After updating the image we noticed that any script tasks worked but software deployment ones would hang. The software packages would be downloaded okay but the actual installation would not occur and would just sit there until the time limit hit and then the job would fail.
We also noticed the same thing happening with our new Windows 10 test image.
I went back to check the template Windows 7 machine and I can deploy applications pre-sysprep/prepare for image capture okay. But after the image is deployed this plugin seems broken in some way.
What i have noticed is that if you remove that plugin and then re-install it, either manually or via policy and you can then deploy software once more.
At first glance it would appear the prepare for image capture task is somehow breaking this plugin.
Has anyone else experienced this. I strongly suspect this is a version 8.0 only issue, however we never did this when we were running 7.6 so can't say for absolute certainty.
Howard