Tariq Jaber.. » Windows Server 2008 http://tariqjaber.com/blog IT Professional Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:00:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Syspreping a Hyper-V machine http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/sysprep-a-hyper-v-machine/ http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/sysprep-a-hyper-v-machine/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:59:25 +0000 Tariq Jaber http://tariqjaber.com/blog/?p=86 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.

]]> http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/sysprep-a-hyper-v-machine/feed/ 0 How to sysprep Windows Server 2008 http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/how-to-sysprep-windows-server-2008/ http://tariqjaber.com/blog/2010/how-to-sysprep-windows-server-2008/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:56:04 +0000 Tariq Jaber http://tariqjaber.com/blog/?p=80 If you want to sysprep a Windows Server 2008 machine, it is an easy process :

  • 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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The following commands are used to add the scope 172.16.16.0 with the name of “HR Users” with the subnet mask 255.255.255.0.

The IP range for

netsh dhcp server \\DHCP-Server add scope 172.16.16.0 255.255.255.0 “HR Users”
netsh dhcp server \\DHCP-Server scope 172.16.16.0 add iprange 172.16.16.1 172.16.16.254
netsh dhcp server \\DHCP-Server scope 172.16.16.0 add excluderange 172.16.16.1 172.16.16.20
netsh dhcp server \\DHCP-Server scope 172.16.16.0 set optionvalue 003 ipaddress 172.16.16.1
netsh dhcp server \\DHCP-Server scope 172.16.16.0 set optionvalue 006 ipaddress 172.16.10.10 172.16.10.11
netsh dhcp server \\DHCP-Server scope 172.16.16.0 set state 1

Commands’ description:

netsh dhcp server \\<Server> add scope <Subnet> <Subnet mask> <ScopeName>
netsh dhcp server \\<Server> scope 172.16.16.0 add iprange <StartIP> <EndIP>
netsh dhcp server \\<Server> scope 172.16.16.0 add excluderange <StartExclusion> <End-Exclusion>
netsh dhcp server \\<Server> scope 172.16.16.0 set optionvalue 003 IPADDRESS <Gateway1>
netsh dhcp server \\<Server> scope 172.16.16.0 set optionvalue 006 IPADDRESS <Primary DNS> <Secondary DNS>
netsh dhcp server \\<Server> scope 172.16.16.0 set state 1
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