Sysprep Download Windows Server 2016
Rufo Catulle
And do note, there is a limit on the number of rearms you can do. MS says 3, and though I've never hit it, you might want to tweak your process to accommodate that. Get to a "gold" image without using sysprep, and then bake in all your cumulative changes into one process so you avoid syspreping an image that's already been sysprepped multiple times. Hardly ideal, but that's Windows for ya.
I've just set up a VM the way I'd like it. I intend for it to be an application server for a Citrix environment, and I'd like to make at least one copy for redundancy's sake and performance considerations for the users. It took me a long time to get the app server set up correctly and I'd prefer to NOT duplicate the process if at all possible.
Has anyone ever had any luck with using something OTHER THAN sysprep to generate a new SID for Windows 7 / Server 2008 or newer machines? I know that there used to be something called NewSID but evidently that doesn't work anymore with newer OS'.
If you look at the sysprep log in the Panther folder (for whatever reason, Windows creates a Panther folder when you run sysprep), it actually lists the particular dll that it is having trouble loading during the process. The location of the folder is c:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther, and the log file is setupact.log. Here is the error message from the log:
I did some research on that error, and it is caused by a piece of software not uninstalling cleanly and leaving some registry hooks that is tripping up sysprep. You have to use regedit to delete the entry to that particular piece of software in the cleanup folder, located here:
its the registry keys that needs to change. once an image has been sysprepped once, if you try and reuse this image - alter the software for example - then sysprep again, 99 times out of 100 it will give you this grief
I have a Windows Server 2012 in a XenCenter virtual machine. The image is prepared as an IIS server and AD domain controller. The domain contains that single server only, but the AD will be synchronized with O365 directory and used by IIS for authentication.
As far as I now understand from what I read about that error, sysprep does not support generalizing domain computers, so it will try to remove that computer from the domain, which should - to my best knowledge - fail for the domain controller, and I guess no one has ever tried to generalize an (better: the) AD domain controller. Is this correct, and how can I check whether this is causing my issue?
SYSPRP Package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_86.0.622.38_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users. This package will not function properly in the sysprep image.
Optionally, you can type sysprep and press Enter to open Sysprep GUI mode. Choose Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) and tick the Generalize checkbox. Select Shutdown from the drop-down menu. Then click OK.
1. First, press Win + R and enter "sysprep" in the textbox to find Sysprep.exe. Run it and choose Enter System OOBE, tick Generalize option, and select Shutdown. This step is to remove SID and avoid related issues after deployment.
I want to update openstack windows-server image which was created recently but when I convert this template to VM and turn it on, do some things/commands etc. and convert it back to template I can see issue like this:
Thus far I am having some pretty good success on not sysprepping and having to worry about rearm if I need to do an unseal/reseal operation. Doesn't mean that I won't stumble across some rogue software that relies on machine sid for key identity processes, but going ok thus far.
In your case, I suggest to leave a golden like image, which deos not have cloudbase-init installed and make changes on that one. If you already have a VMware template, if you start the VM from that template, you already "taint" the image and you need to re-sysprep and reinstall cloudabase-init.
The new image steps are very good, in that order. But the modified image steps -- this is highly dependent on your environment. The right approach would be to use the golden image as a starting point for the changes. The golden image is unsyspreped and does not have cloudbase-init installed.
Also I have another one question:How to deploy Windows VM from VMware template by openstack (VMware Template = clean golden image without sysprep!), so the deployed Windows VM would be syspreped, with beautiful new hostname and IP address?
If you need to update an already created image, this depends on many factors like: the creation tool you used, if the image already has cloudbase-init, if it has been syspreped before, if it has been already started, etc.Can you give more details on the image?
If you already have a VMware template, if you start the VM from that template, you already "taint" the image and you need to re-sysprep and reinstall cloudabase-init.Also now I already know where was the problem with my re-converted image. Thanks
The way we use to Sysprep windows machine are changed in Windows Server 2008. I should admit that it's lot simpler and less painful to Sysprep Windows Server 2008 than any of the previous versions of Windows.
You can find complete detail about Sysprep on Sysprep for Windows Microsoft web site. In a nutshell, it allows us to re-use one of your virtual machine with new name i.e. to make cloned images on VPC or VMware etc. The Sysprep removes system specific information such as SID, reset Administrator password and reset the windows product activation.
I tried to says prep a Dell windows 7 home install. I crashed once to my knowledge. I am super pissed. I saw something on a website that indicated you could run a batch file to reset the activation code but the batch file did not find the reg keys on my system. I just need stupid sysprep to work 1 time. This is ridiculous.
I have tried the past 4 releases of Windows 10 Enterprise, as well as LTSB 2016, and none of them will sysprep or quickprep properly. We're running 3x SimpliVity nodes with ESXi 6.7u1 (so all data shares are NFS) and Horizon 7.9. Windows 7 VMs work perfectly with sysprep, no trouble at all. Following several different guides (iterating my entire process over months) has gotten me to either the VM reboots during sysprep and says it cannot finish customization, or boots to the desktop and sits there. Quickprep can provision the VMs OK, but when one of them is used, Horizon will not refresh the VM at all, and only sporadically does a full delete/rebuild. It's completely inconsistent. I can do Win2016 RDS server pools fine. I'm using the latest build of App Layering 4.x, Horizon 7.9, ESXi 6.7u1, and Windows 10 will not work with Elastic Layering turned on. If I turn off Elastic Layering, the issue seems to go away, but that totally defeats the value in App Layering.
Using Horizon/vCenter to execute sysprep with a customization in vCenter. Evidently it hates the administrator account being disabled, or any form of auto-login -- that will cause an immediate sysprep failure. Enabling the Administrator account and having it set in the customization seems to skip that problem, but leads to "this image cannot be syspreped, please restart to try again" or something to that extent. These are linked clones -- I don't have the Enterprise license to do instant clones.
The image I'm exporting out of App Layering only has Elastic Layering turned on, no User Layer, with FSLogix installed in the OS layer and the Altitude fix applied. I know we've established that Elastic Layering is expecting a non-persistent VM once complete, and that is the goal, but I get the same sysprep error if I accidently leave Elastic Layering turned on for a RDSH base image.
The latest error message, with nothing more than Windows 2016 LTSB, FSLogix, Horizon Agent 7.9, and Sophos for Virtual environments installed in the base layer, a simple platform layer, with Elastic Layering turned on, results in a sysprep error in the log stating "...failed to initialize compat-gentel..." and the interwebz doesn't provide much help. Sysprep said it completed despite the error, but it actually does not. The machine name is set, and that's it.
Win7 syspreps fine, Server 2016 RDSH will sysprep fine, but Windows 10 hates sysprep and quickprep and Elastic Layering. I either end up with non-working VMs, or ones that only reset 50% of the time until I manually rebuild them via the Horizon console. Right now I'm using a RDSH pool for virtual desktops, because FSLogix works with Office 365, OneDrive, and Sharepoint, which our org is starting to use pretty heavily. It has its own quirks -- I can't enable delta disks for even a single VM session, it has to mount the .VHDX straight from the SMB share in order to load, no Elastic Layering -- but it works as advertised, and I can do app masking if I really wanted to, but I don't.
Yes, I created the template using that exact method. If you don't, the time is off, KMS refuses to activate, and you can't join the domain. Learned it the hard way. Using the regular connector will do everything except POST, shut down, and take a snapshot, if I remember correctly. I will give that a shot and see if it helps. I can always rebuild the composer server if it's the issue; I'm not opposed to doing that.
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