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This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Important 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.
Dario Solera Nov Go to top. Layout: fixed fluid. Architect Version 1. First Prev Next. My vote of 5 Member Sep Member Exactly on point. You will need to complete the Windows setup process, and install any required drivers. Optionally you can install any applications you also want to be cloned, along with the OS. Once you are happy with you reference setup, you can move onto step 2. Open the Sysprep application, this should bring up the Sysprep application.
After doing the XenAppPrep, I plan to run Sysprep, and then shut that server down, then create an image of it by booting to my shadowprotect cd and using the image backup function.
Then I plan to copy that image to another server and my hopes are that I can get it up and running, on the domain and in the farm without any software installs necessary. I then want to be able to bring server A back up as a server in the domain and also in the farm. My questions are… 1. Do I need to remove Server A from the domain before I sysprep it?
If I have to remove it from the domain will I be able to get it rejoined to the domain before my XenAppPrep kicks in and tries to join the farm? I know this question may be a bit off topic but it is related to the whole sysprep process and maybe someone has been through it. I did sysprep in my windows R2 VM.
And after sysprep, i see that the new image is not booting up. I followed all the steps correctly. During bootup i see one cmd prompt window opens up during setting up services screen, throws some red colored text in the cmd prompt and then reboots.
After reboot also same issue continues. Could you pls let me know why the sysprepped image is not booting up? I hope you can clarify how to use the sysprep tool for cloning an OS. I want to take an image of a Windows Server and copy it onto other servers. I have already created the image of the server. Do I load the image onto another server and then once loaded and installed, I run sysprep to change SIDs, computer name, activation code, etc.?
Or do I run through sysprep steps first on the host I want to clone, then create an image, then copy the image to a server and the sysprep will guide me through the first time booting up? You set up the initial server, run sysprep to re-seal the OS, and then transfer it to another server.
I trying to sysprep a server and use Imagex to get the image file but it keeps failing as it does not find the image file. Could you please help with that process. What exactly happened? Would you advise me? And oh, by the way, if your source computer is already joined to a domain, remove it from the domain make it a workgroup computer before SYSPREP. This is another source of pain. Everything seems to work fine except that my VHD changes what I had in my domain.
For instance, I used company. Try this in a. CMD file on an effected machine or in logon scripts:. REM — d. James, thanks for the article, BUT you make a statement that is not entirely correct — stating it is the same for bit and bit — not necessarily true. So, there are some subtle syswow64 differences and along those lines; wow also maybe?
Hi Folks. I have a question for you … Hope that someone will be able to help me … My customer has cloned a Windows Server R2 three times in order to have some lab machines.
Now he has attempted to join them to the Active Directory where two Domain Controllers exist. Now he gets some problems that seems due to the fact that Systems have the same SID. Is not a license problem, customer has the right license for each server. Hope someone can give me some suggestion Thanks. Please note that I am a developer, not a sysadmin. I would recommend asking your questions on ServerFault. James Kovacs' Weblog.
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