Sysprep for windows server 2003

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Make sure you have installed everything after which you can move forward to clone the image. Restart the computer once to make sure that the installed updates have taken effect. Step 2 Login to the operating system using the Administrator account Remember, the password is blank Map the ISO image of the Windows operating system to the image.

Create two folders in the C: drive of the operating system. Answer the set of configuration answers as per your requirement and click Next Note : In the Computer Name section, select Automatically generate computer name In the Administrator Password section, keep the password field blank.

Step 3 Copy the virtual hard disk. To confirm that the Sysprep image has been properly created, perform the following steps: Copy the above created virtual hard disk. In Virtual PC, you will have to manually copy the. Rename the virtual hard disk file as per your wish, normally similar to your VM config file. The following page opens: Figure 2. Setup Manager: Creating a new answer file.

The following page opens: Figure 3. Setup Manager: Type of Setup. The following page opens: Figure 4. Setup Manager: Windows product. The following page opens: Figure 5. Setup Manager: License Agreement. The following page opens: Figure 6.

Before you can deploy a Windows image to new PCs, you have to first generalize the image. Generalizing the image removes computer-specific information such as installed drivers and the computer security identifier SID. You can either use Sysprep by itself or Sysprep with an unattend answer file to generalize your image and make it ready for deployment.

On a generalized Windows image, Windows Setup processes settings in the generalize configuration pass. Even if you're capturing an image that's going to be deployed to a PC with similar hardware, you still have to generalize the Windows installation to remove unique PC-specific information from a Windows installation, which allows you to safely reuse your image.

When you generalize an image, Windows replaces the computer SID only on the operating system volume where you ran Sysprep. If a single computer has multiple operating systems, you must run Sysprep on each operating system individually. Generalizing a Windows installation uninstalls these configured devices, but doesn't remove device drivers from the PC. If you're deploying an image to computers that have identical hardware and devices as the original PC, you can keep devices installed on the computer during system generalization by using an unattend file with Microsoft-Windows-PnpSysprep PersistAllDeviceInstalls set to true.

You can run Sysprep command up to times on a single Windows image. After running Sysprep times, you must recreate your Windows image. Refer the following table:. In previous versions of Windows, you could use the SkipRearm answer file setting to reset the Windows Product Activation clock when running Sysprep. If you are using a volume licensing key or a retail product key, you don't have to use SkipRearm because Windows is automatically activated.