After a computer is imaged in automation, and rebooted into production, you may receive a blue screen stating the following "Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup]."
Release : 8.6
DCOM Hardening
This was caused because of Microsoft hardening of DCOM. More information can be found here: KB5004442—Manage changes for Windows DCOM Server Security Feature Bypass (CVE-2021-26414)
You can follow the suggestions in that Microsoft article under Registry setting to enable or disable the hardening changes.
https://bsg-jira.broadcom.net/browse/CRE-10753