this week I had my first VI-3 installation. I installed 3 ESX 3.0.2 Server and a VC 2.0.2 MGMT-server under W2K3 R2 SP2. After some problems the system seems to run passably.. But two things are a liitle bit strange.

I installed a Windows 2003 STD R2 Server with Sp2 and created a template to deploy several other servers from it. During the deployment wizard I tried to customize the new VM. First I copied sysprep ( version 1.1 ) in my VMWare/VC2.02/recources/windows directory. After that I start the deployment wizard an change things like computer-name, network settings, serial number and so on.... But during the cloning/creation process of my VM an error occured and the task fails. If I create a new VM from my template without customizing it, everything works fine...

Is there an incompatibility with W2k3 R2 SP2 and VC 2.0.2? Or should I use a specific version of sysprep?

The other problem concerns the VMWare Tools Installation. After installing a W2K3 R2 SP2 VM the VMWare tools files are not mounted into the cdrom drive of the guest. I right click on the vm-icon and say: "install vmware tool" after a few seconds a error occures: failed to install vm tools : an internal error occures. I looked closer to this thing an find out, that the VMWare tools were not mounted in the guests CD-Rom Drive. I tried different settings for the cd-rom drive ( use client-drive, use host-drive...) but the error still occurs.
Then I imported a W2K3 Std Server with SP1 installed via VMWare Converter an tried to install VMWare tools - everything works fine!!! I copied the mounted files to a network share to install it on the other servers. The installation works fine.... But for easier usage for the customer , the installation during the VC is a must...

Have anybody some ideas to solve my problems??

Thanks for your help in advance, and sorry for my bad Englisch...

Kind Regards

Benjamin