Windows 10: Windows 10 Install "checking connection to Microsoft" fails

Discus and support Windows 10 Install "checking connection to Microsoft" fails in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hello all,I'm about 50 PCs into a reinstall of 500 or so. I use PXE boot and MDT to push a Windows 10 21H1 Education image to devices. Everything has... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Wayne Merricks, Aug 4, 2021.

  1. WAYNE MERRICKS
    Wayne Merricks Win User

    Windows 10 Install "checking connection to Microsoft" fails


    Hello all,I'm about 50 PCs into a reinstall of 500 or so. I use PXE boot and MDT to push a Windows 10 21H1 Education image to devices. Everything has been working fine for the past 800 ish installs according to the deployment console.I've now got 5 machines that all get stuck on the connecting to Microsoft page of the OOBE setup process, at this rate I'll have closer to 50 by the time I get through with them all. The other 40+ are quite happy going past that screen after a few seconds and continuing as normal.The screen swaps between spending many minutes/hours on the Connecting to Micros

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    Wayne Merricks, Aug 4, 2021
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  2. JDS21
    jds21 Win User

    Windows Updates failed to instal

    I just did step one and they have just all installed.... thank you so much.... it was quite frustrating having that update window pop up every 5 minutes and failing to instal every time

    Thanks mate
     
    jds21, Aug 4, 2021
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  3. CK011885
    CK011885 Win User
    Installing Windows 10 on New PC?

    I'm going to be building a new PC on Christmas and want to install Windows 10 on it. I have Windows 10 on my current PC, which I installed upgrading from 8.1 with the files on a USB. How do I go about installing a clean copy of Windows 10 on this new PC? I think I recall something about installing it once makes Microsoft recognize your hardware, but since this will be a PC I'm not sure what steps I need to take. Do I need to go 8.1 -> 10 or is there a method of going directly to 10?
     
    CK011885, Aug 4, 2021
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  4. THELOSTSWEDE
    TheLostSwede Win User

    Windows 10 Install "checking connection to Microsoft" fails

    Installing Windows 10 using Windows 7 key

    Nope, you need to install Windows 10 first and make sure the Windows 7 key is transferred to your Windows account after you've installed Windows 10 (not quite sure how that works). I missed the last step and I could not activate Windows 10 after a re-install... Microsoft seem to have done everything they can to make it a PITA. Also, it's technically too late to do this now anyhow, as the upgrade offer has expired. But KMSPico works quite well...

    As for getting rid of Windows, delete the Windows folder.
     
    TheLostSwede, Aug 4, 2021
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