Server 2008 R2 Sysprep

[mealan]

Hello, we are building out a few clusters for Server 2008r2, and it seems we can't sysprep the way we want to, is there a way to tell it to generalize BEFORE the naming and things like that, we are running into issues with the same GUID in a few places, what have others done to get around this?

Thanks!

Alan

[mg381]

I'm not sure I understand your question exactly.

When I provision a server from a 2008 R2 template, In the Guest Customization settings is when I enter in what the host name will be. Then When I start up the newly created VM and type in my password for the first time, it goes into to process of syspreping and then joins the domain with a new SID so there aren't any issues joining the domain.

Are you doing the guest customization settings when you deploy your machine?

-Mike

[mealan]

Not to worried about sids, thats okay cause it replaces the system's guid, but not the network or scsi adapters like generalize does, so building a cluster doesn't cause issues,

Thanks!

Alan