diff --git a/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/provision/windows_default_provisioning.erb b/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/provision/windows_default_provisioning.erb
index 0ff32c0d1a7..e84d6428854 100644
--- a/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/provision/windows_default_provisioning.erb
+++ b/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/provision/windows_default_provisioning.erb
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ description: |
                 <LocalAccounts>
                     <LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
                         <Password>
-                            <Value><%= host_param('ansible_ssh_pass') %></Value>
+                            <Value>![CDATA[<%= host_param('ansible_ssh_pass') %>]]</Value>
                             <PlainText>true</PlainText>
                         </Password>
                         <Description>Ansible login service user</Description>
diff --git a/test/factories/host_related.rb b/test/factories/host_related.rb
index 2df124b5708..e929b234c09 100644
--- a/test/factories/host_related.rb
+++ b/test/factories/host_related.rb
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def set_nic_attributes(host, attributes, evaluator)
 
     trait :windows do
       sequence(:name) { |n| "windows default#{n}" }
-      layout { "select disk 0\nclean\nconvert gpt\ncreate partition efi size=100\nformat quick fs=fat32 label=\"System\"\nassign letter=\"S\"\ncreate partition msr size=16\ncreate partition primary\nformat quick fs=ntfs label=\"Windows\"\nassign letter=\"W\"\nlist volume\nexit" }
+      layout { "select disk 0\nclean\nconvert gpt\ncreate partition efi size=200\nformat quick fs=fat32 label=\"System\"\nassign letter=\"S\"\ncreate partition msr size=16\ncreate partition primary\nformat quick fs=ntfs label=\"Windows\"\nassign letter=\"W\"\nlist volume\nexit" }
       os_family { 'Windows' }
     end
   end