Hello,
i am a bit frustrated with 2012R2, there are many good things and some that are so annoying that i want to flip tables. You need the Desktop Experience with loads of stuff i dont want just to add "Computer" and "Network" to the Desktop...i can life without them, some of our IT-Staff cant.
Installing Desktop Expierence adding the Icons to the Desktop then removing Desktop Experience again, will work. Unless you try to sysprep your system afterwards. I tried it twice and in both scenarios sysprep failed before the reboot, with or without unattend Files.
I completly redid the process for my Masterimage and did not add/remove Desktop Experience and tried again and it worked as expected.
Can somebody confirm this behavior or had the same Problem?