Me again. It is running since almost 2 hours. What should I do? The command to clear the Event Log does not work for me. Hello, great article. One question, i might be missing something, but in esxi 6. In the customizaiton wizard, the very last step is where you can disable or enable the generation of the SID.
As I mentioned earlier, I still believe the new SID option is -not- supported by Microsoft, as it is not the same as sysprep.
Sysprep will also delete a lot of stuff and the last action is shutdown the computer so then your image is ready to deploy or use in an template. I explained where the SID option is, and it is supported, and it does work. I have built many servers over the many years from this and other templates and Microsoft has helped me a few times and made no complaints or negative comments on my template articles.
And I have shown them to MS people before. This is not a new SID option but one that has been around for a long time. The wizard does build a sysprep file and you can use your own sysprep files too.
Must be missing it. Hi Alex, I will update my article today with a screenshot to help and hopefully no one will miss it in the future. I will also include a link to a simple little tool to change the sid.
Way more easier to use if necessary. I realized the issue for you might be is that you create the template, but when you deploy from it you do not use a custom spec. You must do that, and when you do you will see the option I mentioned.
Thanks exactly what I was going to say. There is allot of talk about SIDS when its not that big of a deal. As i stated in a post above, the only time i ran into an issue is with WSUS and computers checking in and getting updates. Thanks for the great articles Mike. Very helpful.
My question is on Windows Activation. Used to be you had three days or something to setup and try out Windows Server with full features. But what do you do after deployment of the template to get it to use the KMS server for activation? Is that a RunOnce you add, or a part of your deployment process after joining the domain? Glad the article is helpful. There are a few answers for how the licenses can work. I consider my templates valuable so I license them.
I use a legit MSDN license as part of the provision from template. After the deploy and some sort of time, they activate themselves. Sometimes if I see an activate I push it. This works good in my lab. Outside of the lab, like at a customer site with KMS and it happens automatically — meaning you provision with no specified key. I hope that this makes sense?
A lot of windows updates and system configurations built about past updates. If you remove them you can have issues later down the road when you install updates or when you try and add additional roles and features. I tested this thoroughly after I started getting strange errors when trying to install additional roles. I even went as far as building a new server template exactly the same as you outlined and left out the script and everything worked great.
Built the template again and included the script and again started having problems. Thanks for sharing this. Sounds like you tested it very well. While I have not run into problems myself, I will add a note about this to my article. I get errors on that command. Any ideas? I did it at cmd run as admin, on Win2K Thanks for removing the DISM section.
I was also bitten by DISM but was lucky enough to have made several snapshots during the process of creating the new image. Dism is fine. Just restart afterwards. Instead, shut down, and convert to template. Thanks for this. Much appreciated. Do you have the link to the MS instructions? That you think are good info? Everything in your article worked perfect for me today and greatly sped up the deployment process. Used the customization spec too. We are starting to use the windows MSA and gMSA accounts that require the active directory module to be installed on the Windows Servers to improve password security.
Great blog! Had to use this. Have you had the chance to look at Server ? Any plans on doing another excellent template white paper post? I will certainly do one on Win2K I look forward to it.
Not sure when but as soon as I can. Thanks for reminding me. I even have some interesting edits for the Win2K16 one too. My experience is to not change the tuning settings for VMXNet3 unless VMware support suggests it for solving a particular issue. I suggest you do not change the config of it without a very good reason. You can use the CD and specify the path, or you can use the steps written below to set the path to for example a network location.
Open the Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair Group Policy setting, and then select Enabled. First, using these instructions allows the foolproof installation of. Net 3. We keep getting the error that the RPC server is unavailable. However it works fine with machines that are sysprepped and use SCCM for image deployment. I do not have a CA, and of the many people I have talked with about my template articles none have mentioned if they have one or not.
I am surprised that this template might impact the process of recieving a cert. Not sure when I will be able to test this but one day I will. Good comprehensive blog on how to create a golden image. The only issue I had was DefProf. I know it sounds picky but if your image is being pentested for a CIS level 1 baseline then it will be flagged.
I decided to redo the image and skip the profile customization step. Thanks for the rest of the instructions, it helped me greatly. Regards, Gilbert. Hello Gilbert, thanks for sharing this. Next time I do a serious update of my template article I will see if there is an updated to DefProf, or if I can find info from them on this.
What I find I will add to the article. We first install the Copy Profile tool — called DefProf. Now create a temporary domain or local admin account, and log on as that user. The new temp account that we just created and logged into? Hi Eric, the account name is the one that you are not logged on as, and has all of the customization associated with it.
Just a quick question is there is way to for the template to get automatic windows update when it is a template? I have an wsus server. There is no way for something to update a template when it is a template.
YOu need to turn it into a VM first. You could likely script something. Personally, once a month or two I turn my templates in VMs, updated patches, utilities and whatever else and turn them back into templates. Maybe takes an hour. Hi there!
I used this tutorial to build my Windows Server template and the following deployment. I used a W original ISO, installed only three security updates two monthly updates and one for the IP stack , programs installed, and admin profile customized and replicated to the default with DefProf.
So far, so good. I used your guides to create my template, then my template, and just created a Server template using the instructions. Thank you so much for this Michael White! I always come back to this when I want a template from scratch, which I like to do once a year.
Hi Chris, glad this helps out. I often add it but it makes more sense in the template. Thanks for this template, I have a few servers running like a charm. I was wondering if the guide will work to get a server template created? You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Home About Other Stuff! Napa and Sonoma recommended Wine destinations Recommended Restaurants. Things to get ready You should have the following handy when you start. Windows PID You will need to use a utility to copy the profile that you can find here. This is important as Microsoft has been working since Win2K8 to make it difficult to copy a profile. We do a bunch of customization as a user, and we want to copy it to the the default user so after our template is used to provision as a new VM, new users will get our customization.
You should have the VMRC ready to use, as it is a much better experience then using the normal remote console. Find the bits here to install on your work machine, and you can read a little about it here. The VMRC is a most excellent way to do this sort of thing so I recommend you be quite familiar with it if you are not.
It is what I use for all console sessions now. Virtual Machine and Operating System Create a new virtual machine. Use a good name. For example I use w2kTPL fifteen character limit here to remember. Both vCPU and memory can be changed later after you deploy from this template.
See below for an example of what this should look like. As we create this virtual machine, we need to make some changes before we power it on.
So change to VM Options as seen above in the screenshot. This would protect you from root kits. If a root kit takes over the VM during boot it will be determined and boot will not complete. When I can I will document this better. See below for what this should look like. I find this useful, especially in big environments. Now we can power up and select the Launch Remote Console option — as seen below. This is the very nice to work in VMRC option.
You should see the BIOS when you get the console open. We want to disable the Serial, Parallel ports, and the Floppy controller. The first place the OS stops and waits for you is seen below. You can just hit Next to continue. As we are using the VMRC we can actually use our mouse here. You will need to enter a license. I have to type it in as I am not able to do copy and paste successfully!
I have been asked why I license my template. A template gets lots of attention, and they enable fast and tuned provisioning. I customize a template a lot so it is around for a long time so it needs a license. The next screen gives you a choice between installing with a Desktop Experience or not.
I suggest that you make an informed decision. What is this template going to be used for? Unlike in Win2K12 you cannot change your mind later. Next to continue.
In the next screen you will be prompted to select a Type of Installation. I see as in Win2K12 the wrong choice is see selected here in Win2K Not sure why so make sure to use the Custom choice. The next screen will ask you about where to install Windows. We can actually hit Next. Now we wait, and watch. It takes a while. We will need to add a password to the administrator account.
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The system should start automatically a new operating system installation. Perform a regular Windows installation. After finishing the customization, restart the Windows virtual machine. Tutorial - Create the Windows Template using Sysprep. After finishing all the customizations desired, you need to Run the Sysprep Application.
Sysprep is a tool created by Microsoft to prepare a Windows installation to become a template. We are going to use the Sysprep tool to prepare this computer to become a Windows template. The Sysprep tool has the potential to cause loss of data. After finishing the process, your computer will shutdown automatically.
Do not turn on this computer anymore. Now, you need to create a Vmware Datastore repository to the template. Access the Datastores tab and select the Datastore browser option. On the Vmware datastore browser screen, click on the Create directory option.
Enter the desired name to the template repository folder. Now, you need to access the datastore folder of your Windows virtual machine. Copy the VMX file from the original Windows virtual machine to the template folder.
Now, we are going to show you how to create a new Windows virtual machine from our template.
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