Hi,
So I have been having a problem with Server2008 R2 and sysprep on vmware.
I have been tasked with creating some images to be used within a VLE in the future and what I had planned to provide was 6 images. 3 of Server and 3 of Win 7. 1 of each totally unpatched, 1 partially patched and 1 fully patched.
My issued arrived after I had initially setup my images. I installed server and win 7, I then set up server as DC with various services to be running (DNS, DHCP etc). Once I set everything up and tested to make sure all was working fine. I sysprepped to
OOBE with generalize the server vmware image to remove licensing (using my own license to create) and SIDs. (I aimed to create .wim images so that different licensing info could be installed once the images were put to use in the VLE)
Sysprep launched and ran fine but when I restarted and services had finished reinstalling then devices got to 100%, I then received an error stating that "Windows Setup could not configure Windows on this computer's hardware" I clicked Ok then was sent into a reboot loop where it would restart, services would try to reinstall and it would give an error "Windows could not complete the installation, please restart and try again" then reboot and repeat.
I checked for anyone having the same issues and most of the results I have came across spoke about a the issues with the registry not being able to handle entries over 8kb when sysprepped. I installed the hotfixa on the backups i had created and tried again but to no avail.
I am quite stumped as to how to get around this issue. If anyone can provide any help on this I would really appreciate it.