Icons missing from Network and Dial-up Connections after P2V

[kurtwest]

I have had an issue while doing P2V's of some of my Windows 2000 Servers. I am using VMConverter 3.0.3 and it has happened with VMConverter 3.0.2 Update 1. When I do the conversion the conversion completes, but when I look the the VM there are no icons at all in the Network and Dial-up Connections folder. It is not just my Local Area Conenction icons that are missing, but the Make New Connection icon is mising as well. Then when I go back to the physical server the same thing is happening there. I am 100% certian the issue was not there before the converion. I found a MS article on troublshooting this issue, but my question is why is this happening during conversions.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329050

I can not reproduce the issue at will, but it has happend a few times to me. I have quite a few W2K servers to covnert to VMs, so I want to find out how I can avoid it. I am unable to configure the network on the VM when this happens.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

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Edward L. Haletky

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[kurtwest]

I can contribute my problem directly with the VMConverter Agent. Tonight I was going to convert 4 Window 2000 servers. This time I decided to install the agent, reboot the source server, stop the services and then do the conversion. After I installed the agent and rebooted I looked in "Network Connections" and all the icons were missing. Uninstalling the agent does not fix the problem.