Tariq Jaber.. » sysprep http://tariqjaber.com/blog Specialized systems engineer Thu, 20 May 2010 08:21:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Syspreping a Hyper-V machine http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/01/11/sysprep-a-hyper-v-machine/ http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/01/11/sysprep-a-hyper-v-machine/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:13:20 +0000 Tariq Jaber http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/01/11/sysprep-a-hyper-v-machine/ If you want to sysprep a Hyper-V machine, make sure it has no snapshots.

I was syspreping one of my Hyper-V machines, I copied the syspreped vhd and created a new virtual machine linked to this existing syspreped vhd. When I start this new virtual machine it starts as it wasn’t syspreped with menu to select either to “Safe mode” or to “Start Windows normally”.

I deleted the snapshots that I don’t need and I applied others to the original virtual machine. After this, I was able to sysprep and create a new virtual machine successfully.

PS: Usually we will sysprep a clean machine, not a machine with applications and services installed on it with so many snapshots.

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  • Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep
  • Run Sysprep.exe
  • Check "Generalize" (this regenerates SID’s)
  • Change Shutdown option to to Shutdown.

That is it :)

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