Questions tagged [sysprep]
Sysprep is the name of Microsoft's System Preparation Utility for Microsoft Windows operating system deployment.
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Generalize an image without using Sysprep?
Without using sysprep, is there another way to generalize an image for use with Clonezilla?
I created a sysprep image and forgot to add a few things. So when I tried to redo it, I get the failed to ...
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Windows System Image Manager - Extended Attributes Error
I'm trying to create a basic answer file for an image I'm working on to get the computer to automatically join the domain upon reimage. I've got the Win7 Pro 64 bit install.wim file extracted from the ...
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Set MAK and activate Office 2010 when deploying a syspreped image
I am deploying Windows 7 using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) on Server 2008 R2. On the image I have Office 2010 already installed. I don't use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) but Windows ...
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Access to network share not possible using Sysprep's GuiRunOnce with VMware PowerCLI
As mentioned in the title, I am currently creating an automized deployment of VMs using VMware PowerCLI. Everything works fine so far, until I want to execute some scripts in the GuiRunOnce section ...
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What is the proper way to change the product key for Office 2010 Professional Plus?
I am trying to clone a VM. I've done sysprep successfully and all is well with my new box, except Office 2010 Professional Plus product key did not get wiped by sysprep (not too surprising), and I am ...
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How to duplicate a VHD with Windows 7 so others can use it?
I have created a VHD image with Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and a couple of SDKs, which took a while to install. Now I want to share this VHD with my coleagues so they don't have to go through the ...
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Sysprepping Windows Server 2012, how do I avoid plug and play drivers installed by VMware Tools being removed?
I am sysprepping Windows Server 2012 Standard to be used as a VM template. I want to preserve drivers installed by VMWare Tools such that the mouse won't lag in new installations. If I just run a ...
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WS2008R2 First run after sysprep did not prompt for new administrator password, I'm completely locked out
After running sysprep to OOBE and generalize a master disk for cloning, at first run it prompted only for language/region and a machine name, then proceeded on to the CTRL+ALT+DELETE to login screen. ...
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MDT 2012 - Task Sequence Not Completing
I'm a complete novice with MDT 2012, but I have had pretty good luck getting a deployment for Server 2008 R2.
I have a reference system, and I do a very vanilla sysprep and capture using the ...
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Is it possible to update syspreped parent image without affecting the child diff disk in hyper-v
This ties to the SO: Can you update a Hyper-V parent differencing disk to push updates to all children?
I have setup where parent disk is the syspreped image of the OS. I have created a child VM with ...
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Does Running Sysprep Remove Applications Previously Installed
I have a virtualized copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 installed with some applications already installed on it (not server roles) and I would like to re-deploy it on a number of other servers across my ...
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Can I take a domain pc hard drive and put it in the exact same hardware and leave it as it is on the domain without running any sys prep?
I have a workstation in a domain that has failed with hardware related issues. The actual hard drive is fine and is not the issue with with the workstation. Since we have spares of these workstations, ...
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Best way to integrate applications to windows 7 install.wim image
I have right now an unmodified .iso of a windows 7 32bit and 64bit installation disk. And I need to integrate to that some applications (office, adobe reader etc) and windows updates so that when ...
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vSphere Client vCenter Template Customization Specification Using Windows Sysprep Unattended Answer XML File
I'm trying to setup a vSphere Client vCenter v5.0.0 Build 455964 Template Customization Specification using a Windows Sysprep unattended answer XML file for Win2008R2.
However I didn't know how ...
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Win 8 - how to prepare an image so it does not run through setup?
I am preparing a Win8 image to use as base for automatic deployments in Hyper-V at the moment.
It seems that whenever a sysprepped image starts, it is running through the whole setup routine - which ...
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Sysprep and Capture task sequence failing using MDT 2010
I have created a Windows Deployment Services server in Windows 2008 R2. When I originally set it up I was able to successfully use MDT 2010 to create my boot images as well as creating task sequences ...
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Should you defrag before capturing an image?
If I'm capturing an image with imagex.exe /capture ..., does it matter if I defrag the hard disk prior to doing so (or strictly speaking, before sysprep)? Is there any benefit to doing so with a file-...
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To join, or not to join [to the domain before deploying VDI]?
I've seen conflicting suggestions on VMware's documentation as well as around the Internet on a best practice for preparing linked clones for VMware View (5) deployments. Should I join the parent VM ...
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How to sysprep SQL Server Express?
We plan to deploy Hyper-V VHD with Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 Express installed to multiple hosts. From my understanding, the correct way to do this is to install SQL Server in ...
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Sysprep on an already deployed system?
I've done some digging on the site and around, and I haven't seen anything that quite addresses my problem.
I have recently deployed a WSUS 3.0 SP2 hierarchy to a new data center and a pair of ...
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Is it appropriate to run Hyper-V Server on each desktop PC?
I am currently designing a rollout of Windows 7 to a shop of approximately 80-100 desks. The office is a flat network without routing between servers and desktops. There are a few Windows Server ...
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Can I still < CopyProfile > without the /Generalize arg to the default Profile?
The title is self explanatory. I had to remove the /generalize option when going from my sysprep to OOBE but that has now broken my copy profile.
I have read multiple places, that /generalize is ...
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Editing Sysprep Unattend.xml after Sysprep
I have an image of a Server 2008 R2 system which has been Sysprepped and was shutdown prior to its first boot. Now, it would seem I screwed the XML file up as it fails halfway through the Serialize ...
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Will a SQL Server client alias survive a sysprep?
I want to sysprep a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 machine that has SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 installed (for reference, SQL Server 2008 R2 has a new sysprep feature that allows the instance to be sysprepped)....
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Multicasting Windows 7 Image
I am trying to deploy some new machines with windows 7 for the first time in our computer labs. We used to use third party imaging software and then run sysprep after the image was copied(XP), but it ...
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Windows 7 Unattended install - Not really 'unattended'
I have been trying for a few days to get a correct and working Unattended.xml answerfile for Windows 7. Trying to create a completely unattended install of Windows 7 to where a tech can insert USB ...
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What does sysprep do on Win2k8 with /audit?
Windows 2008 R2 host running Hyper-V. I meant to run "sysprep /audit /reboot" on one of the virtual machines, but ended up running that on the host (doing this through 2 layers of RDP - bad idea). The ...
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Deploying XP machines fails to use Prestaged Computer Name
I have been happily deploying Windows 7 images using WDS for a few months now and everything has been working smoothly.
I have prestaged the computernames in AD because one of our clients wants ...
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automatically bring up a new virtual machine using a sysprep vhd in hyper-v
i have a VHD which has been sysprepped (it was created on Hyper-V itself), and i have the answer file too generated by sysprep.
now i need to bring up a new VM using Hyper-V which will use the above ...
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Sysprep answer file to minimize disk changes
I going to be creating several Hyper-V virtual machines that are virtually identical (and all running on the same hardware). In the past I've done this by building a single VM, patching & ...
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How to fix 7B stop errors when cloning Windows images to different HBA types
When Windows is installed it searches it's driver database and installs the appropriate HBA driver so the boot loader can access the drive and boot the system. When an image is taken and cloned to a ...
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Does Audit Mode Have a Time Limit
I am trying to move towards better Sysprep and image management practices, and I am trying to get me and my time to use Audit Mode when modifying the images to get rid of some nasty image problems I ...
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Reboot loop after sysprep of AD machine
Major screw-up here and I need to find out how much trouble I am in.
I have an AD machine that is running Server 2008 R2, hyperv, DHCP and DNS. On the hyperv machine, I have a backup AD instance ...
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Accidental sysprep of AD machine
Major screw-up here and I need to find out how much trouble I am in.
I have an AD machine that is running Server 2008 R2, hyperv, DHCP and DNS. On the hyperv machine, I have a backup AD instance ...
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ESX + Sysprep.inf + Template= unhappy computername
I am trying to create a template in ESX that I can automate with PowerCLI. Everything works great so far, but because I have some specific settings, I had to create my own sysprep.inf. Now, the ...
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Disable Security Center on SYSPREP-ed Windows XP
I am deploying Windows XP SP3 images in a stand-alone environment using SYSPREP. I am updating an existing image with patches, drivers, etc. Although my first images never launched Windows Security ...
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VMware Sysprep with Custom Unattended.xml
I was looking into using VCenter for deploying VMs and wanted to take advantage of the built-in template features and the ability to make use of unattended.xml files. I have a Windows 7 template that ...
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Sysprep vs cloning or a mixture of the two?
I have fifty computers (not the same) and the boss wants a new identical Windows 7 image on all of them. Unfortunately it's not just a Windows 7 / Office 2010 image but one with a load of other ...
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SharePoint crashed after sysprep
We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that ends up being replicated multiple times a week for development purposes.
Each time the server is replicated, the machine name changes. This completely ...
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Sysprep fails when using Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager
Sysprep Fails when creating a new Template in Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager:
Error (706)
Sysprep failed for virtual machine VMName
Recommended Action
Try the operation again.
Is there a more ...
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How to use sysprep for a vhd
We have a vhd copy of physical a windows vista machine. Since we don't want to touch the physical machine, we like to run sysprep on the vhd. Unfortunately this vhd does not boot on hyper-v. Is there ...
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Does doing sysprep too many times cause issues?
I've been told that one should not sysprep a Windows image too many times... kinda like using a Nuralizer too many times on one person :) Can anyone provide additional information on this?
We like to ...
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Sysprep system started up
We sysprep'd our newest xp install and restarted to image it. Our tech missed getting it to boot into the usb drive for imaging. Is there anyway to leave the install now without it giving a bootup ...
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Joining an Active Directory domain in the middle of a sysprep auditing?
Is it possible to sysprep a Windows 7 image by installing it on a reference machine, then after entering audit mode, joining the computer to the domain. Then after I finish sysprepping, it will ...
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Can't re-image laptop, "Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware"
A user's laptop (Lenovo W520) was having strange issues (could not open mspaint, among other things, other apps crashing a lot), and it is only 2 months old. After chkdsk and Lenovo diagnostics CD (a ...
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Windows 7 Sysprep Default User
I seem to be having a problem with implementing my sysprep.
I have been playing with Windows 7, WAIK, Server 2008 R2 and various other things. I managed to create a WIM with everything I need ...
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Sysprep rearm set to 1 and shouldn't have been. Any workarounds for automatic activation prior to the 30 day period?
I work for a fairly large school. We are deploying 850 tablet PCs to students starting tomorrow (Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK). We have imaged all of these machines with our standard student image ...
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sysprep'd Server 2008 R2 VMware autocheck BSODs
I'm trying to set up a template Server 2k8 R2 (Standard) VM in our VMware ESXi environment, we'll need to deploy a whole lot of them and I want to (a) streamline and (b) standardise the server build ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - Remove Product Key to Force Reactivation after Deployment
I have a VM configured with internal software that needs to be sent to an outside party for evaluation. As it stands, the user who configured it also activated the software with a company issued MSDN ...
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Sysprep question
I want to move a VHD I have on my Hyper-V server to another Hyper-V server I am setting up. For this to happen, does the VHD need to be sysprepped?
Furthermore, I am downloading an OVF of a VM I have ...