I have been working on this all day, and am ready blow my top...here is what I have
vSphere Client 4.0.0
VSphere ESX hosts running Update 1
Template is W2K8 SP2...NOT R2.
Trying to deploy a Windows 2008 server from a template but I am losing all my configuration settings. I.E. Local admin account goes back to "Administrator", Classic view goes back to the Default W2K8 view. I am pretty sure it is due to the syspreping of the VM when I use the customization script since when sysprep runs it deletes the Admin account and creates a new one based off of the Default User (I believe this is correct). I have been Googling my butt off and I see all kinds of fixes, but nothing is working for me.
I tried these:
http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/how-to-build-a-windows-2008-vmware-esx-vm-template/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959753
Starting going down the road of using Microsoft's AIK to build the unattend.xml file...but was getting too frustrated to continue...
Anyone have this figured out?
