How to activate Windows To Go from Intune Software Assurance

We recently decided on using Windows Intune with Software Assurance to create Windows To Go drives for some of our employees as they would like to work from home on computers running Windows XP and Windows Vista.
We are using the PowerShell option and the Install.WIM file from the Enterprise ISO available on the Windows Intune Software Assurance download page.
We are running into a problem when activating Windows To Go. We receive an error "DNS name does not exist" when trying to activate. We are building this off of an installation of Windows 8 Enterprise that was received thru Windows Intune Software
Assurance. Additionally, we are using the Dism.exe for imaging the drives.
What are we doing wrong?
It's important that I note, the machine we are building the Windows To Go images from does not have an internet connection and therefore has not been activated. I was thinking this may be related to our problem but I figured I would as to see if there
may be some other condition we are missing.
Furthermore, I should mention, we are not taking a snapshot of the machine to create a custom WIM file. We are using the raw WIM from the Enterprise ISO. Could this be the cause as well?
I also thought that perhaps we needed to activate the machine we are building from first, then create a custom WIM image of that activated machine and use an activated WIM image file for the Dism process, but then I also considered that if I do that, I have
to run Sysprep which would reset activation, correct?
The Windows To Go image already has Windows Intune installed prior to attempts for activation so I know it's not that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Owner, Quilnet Solutions

I know this is very old but I’m trying to clean up old posts. Did you ever solve this? If so it would be good if you could post the solution to assist others. If not, at this
stage, as nobody has answered, I would recommend that you call Intune support.
You will find your local Intune support number here
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/jj839713.aspx
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