VMware-Guest-Customization-Specification-5.gif' alt='Sysprep Server 2008 R2 Vmware' title='Sysprep Server 2008 R2 Vmware' />How To Make An Unattend. Sysprep File. Sysprep is very useful in preparing an image for cloning imaging by stripping all specialization from the installation like drives, SID, PNP enumeration, name and more. During the next reboot PNP is initiated and the Out Of Box Experience is run this is similar to a preloaded laptop or computer from the factory starting up for the first time. When you are cloningimaging machines in mass it is extremely handy to automate as much as possible. Using the Windows AIK Automated Installation Kit specifically a tool called Windows SIM System Image Manager you can automate the entire process. The unattend. xml file is used along with sysprep to automate the image specialization and OOBE after it is cloned and rebooted. The following process will automate the sysprep so next reboot it will only ask for computer name. Some assumptions during this article are you are creating an EnglishUS install, you are using a KMS server and your timezone is EDT. Step 1. Download and install the latest WAIK from http downloads. WAIK should support Windows 7 and 2. R2 check the date. Step 2. Get your media that you have installed with and mount it in the DVD ROM or via and ISO mounting utility if it is only and ISO. You will need to allow Windows SIM to access the install. Step 3. Start Windows SIM and right click on Select a Windows Image or Catalog and find the install. In this tutorial I used x. Step 4. Now we need an answer file, so right click on Create or open an answer file and select New Answer FileStep 5. On the left hand side open the Components folder and find Microsoft Windows International Core, right click and select Add Settings to Pass 7 oobe. System. It will be added to the answer file in the center. Step 6. Fill in the settings for Input. Responses to How To Make An Unattend. Sysprep File Mark Says January 20th, 2011 at 1045 am. You probably should mask your product key. Convenience Rollup. On May 17, 2016, Microsoft released a Convenience Rollup for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. This Rollup includes almost all fixes released after. Right now we are interested to just update the server, so press 6 then Enter. This will open another window where you need to chose what type of updates you want the. It is not uncommon for system administrators to clone virtual servers or take an image of physical servers running Windows Server 2008 these days. There are plenty of. Learn how to use Sysprep for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Sysprep is a critical step to deploying new system images both for client computers and servers. I cloned a vmware machine on vSphere client, which meant I needed to run NewSID or sysprep to change the SID. As newSID isnt available any more, I ran sysprep. Sysprep Server 2008 R2 Vmware' title='Sysprep Server 2008 R2 Vmware' />Locale thru User. Locale in the properties pane I used en US for English language and United States locale. The en US is defined in the RFC4. ISO 6. 39 1 code for known languages and the ISO 3. Microsoft has an article of supported RFC4. LCID reference http msdn. PROT. 1. 02. 9. aspx. Step 7. On the left hand side under the Components folder and find Microsoft Windows Shell Setup6. Add Settings to Pass 7 oobe. System. It will be added to the answer file in the center. Click on the Shell Setup in the answer file section and fill in the Time. Zone under properties. A list of these time zones can be found here http technet. WS. 1. 02. 9. aspx. Step 8. Open the Microsoft Windows Shell Setup folder in the answer file and find OOBE and click on it. In the properties page set Hide. EULAPage to true and Network Location to Work, Public or Home. The Protect. Your. PC property can be set to 1 for recommended protection, 2 for updates only and 3 for automatic protection to be disabled. These all related to the Windows Update protection. WS. 1. 02. 9. aspx. Step 9. We need to setup the first administrator account since Windows 7s administrator account is disabled by default. Further down under Microsoft Windows Shell Setup click on User. Accounts then right click on Local. Accounts and select Insert New Local. Account. Step 1. In the properties of the local account on the right side fill out Description, Display. Name and Name. The Group must be administrators, so that you can locally administrate the computer i. Step 1. 1. Click on Password under the Local. AccountNameusername and in the properties pane set the password for the account. The password will be saved in the XML file however it will be encrypted the encryption used is unspecified in Microsofts documentation. Step 1. 2. On the left hand side under the Components folder and find Microsoft Windows Shell Setup6. Add Settings to Pass 4 specialize. It will be added to the answer file in the center respectively under 4 Specialize. Click on the Shell Setup in the answer file section and fill in the Product. Key with the default KMS key found here http technet. These product keys will not activate via Microsoft retail, instead they are dummy keys for a Key Management Server to activate. The product key I used was for Windows 7 Enterprise 3. PXH 7. Y6. KF 2. VJC9 XBBR8 HVTHH. Setting this will skip the activation question during setup, but make sure you have a KMS server running. Also make sure you have met the 2. KMS will not activate any of the clients. Step 1. 3. Right click on the answer file and choose Close Answer File when prompted save it as unattend. Step 1. 4. Copy the unattend. C windowssystem. The startprep. I find it is best consistency so the next time you do this you have the command at hand. You could just type the command into a CMD prompt. Step 1. 5. Run the startprep. Create an image of the workstation using your favorite image software and distribute the image to other workstations. When they restart the unattend. System. lt component nameMicrosoft Windows International Core processor. Architectureamd. Key. Token3. 1bf. Scopenon. Sx. S xmlns wcmhttp schemas. WMIConfig2. 00. 2State xmlns xsihttp www. Game Tank 1990 Cho Pc. XMLSchema instance. Input. Locale en USlt Input. Locale. lt System. Locale en USlt System. Locale. lt UILanguage en USlt UILanguage. UILanguage. Fallback en USlt UILanguage. Fallback. lt User. Locale en USlt User. Locale. lt component. Microsoft Windows Shell Setup processor. Architectureamd. Key. Token3. 1bf. Scopenon. Sx. S xmlns wcmhttp schemas. WMIConfig2. 00. 2State xmlns xsihttp www. XMLSchema instance. Hide. EULAPage truelt Hide. EULAPage. lt Network. Location Worklt Network. Location. lt Protect. Your. PC 1lt Protect. Your. PC. lt User. Accounts. lt Local. Accounts. lt Local. Account wcm actionadd. Password. lt Value c. ABh. AHMAcw. B3. AG8. Acg. Bk. AFAAYQBz. AHMAdw. Bv. AHIAZAAlt Value. Plain. Text falselt Plain. Text. lt Password. Description First Admin Userlt Description. Display. Name Userlt Display. Name. lt Group administratorslt Group. Name Userlt Name. Local. Account. Local. Accounts. User. Accounts. Time. Zone Eastern Standard Timelt Time. Zone. lt component. Microsoft Windows Shell Setup processor. Architectureamd. Key. Token3. 1bf. Scopenon. Sx. S xmlns wcmhttp schemas. WMIConfig2. 00. 2State xmlns xsihttp www. XMLSchema instance. Product. Key 3. PXH 7. Y6. KF 2. VJC9 XBBR8 HVTHHlt Product. Key. lt component. Image cpi sourcewim h sourcesinstall. Windows 7 ENTERPRISE xmlns cpiurn schemas microsoft com cpi. Tags Image, Sysprep, Windows. This entry was posted. Thursday, January 6th, 2. Windows 7. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. Both comments and pings are currently closed. How to Sysprep in Windows Server 2. R2 and Windows 7. Note This post discusses Sysprep as it pertains to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2. R2. If youre working with a different version of Windows, check out these posts. About eighteen months ago, I blogged about how to run Sysprep for Windows Server 2. I figured Id update it for Windows Server 2. R2 and Windows 7. If you never had the need to look at Sysprep in Windows Vista2. Windows Server 2. XP, etc. The first step is acquiring the Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK and installing it on a machine. It will run fine on a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2. You can get it from Microsofts website at http www. Family. ID6. 96dd. The tool of choice is the Windows System Image Manager WSIM. When you start it youll get a blank screen like this The first step is to open the image file for the Windows SKU you want to build a sysprep file for by going to File Select Windows Image Note You may need to first create a catalog file before completing the preceding step. In order to do this, youll first need to copy the install. DVD sources folder to the hard drive as the tool wont work with it if it doesnt have write access to the WIM file. You can then go to Tools Create Catalog and create the catalog file. All of the settings you will want to setup in your unattend. Windows Image. The documentation for all the settings can be found in the Unattended Windows Setup Reference CHM file which ships with the WAIK. This link http technet. WS. 1. 0. aspx shows a mapping table between the sysprep. This link is for Windows Vista but it still applies. All of the various settings can be applied during different passes of the setup process which sysprep will trigger. You can read about these passes here. I built a simple unattend file just for syspreping my base image which includes settings in the generalize, specialize, and oobe. System passes. All of the settings I chose are outlined below. My answer file tree Disabling the initial configuration dialog Disabling Server Manager from loading at first run Setting the Internet Explorer homepage to about blank, turning off the IE8 Accelerators, and disabling the first run wizard Setting Google as my default Search Provider in Internet Explorer Note To do this, you should right click on Search. Scopes and Insert New Scope. There are two versions of Internet Explorer on a 6. IE and the 3. 2 bit one. Youll need to set the settings for them independently. Duplicate the above IE configuration in the wow. Microsoft Windows IE Internet. Explorerneutral component Setting my product key, timezone settings, and my name Configuring localization settings if you want something other than US English, look under Input Locales in the index of the Unattended Windows Setup Reference CHM file referenced earlier Configuring the screen resolution and color depth 1. VMWare full screen mode with the tabs across the top Configuring setup not to show me the EULA again Configuring setup to install a default local administrator account password One of the things thats unlike Sysprep from Windows 2. Windows Server 2. Sysprep process. The down level Sysprep deletes the c sysprep folder when it finishes. In order to replicate this functionality, you can put a command in to delete the unattend. Setup. Complete. cmd batch file which must be located in c windowssetupscripts which gets called at the end of Sysprep. I put a simple one line command in my Setup. Complete. cmd file del Q F c windowssystem. In order to run Sysprep youll need a new command. The old Sysprep UI that was there in Windows 2. All of the Sysprep command line switches are documented at http technet. WS. 1. 0. aspx. sysprep generalize oobe shutdown unattend unattend.