Yet Another IT Professional Blog

Almost all of the obvious bugs and errors are all related to Microsoft new environment and the APPs... Recently, I was trying to prepare a VM Template but I was stuck at the Sysprep process with the following error.

Altough it's been a while that Windows 8 is out on the market, I never had to play around with the Windows 8 images and syspreps as I had to with Windows 7. I decided to prepare me a nice updated image of Windows 8 in a vm and sysprep it and use it as template for my lab environment. The plan is simple...

What is sysprep? From Microsoft “ The System Preparation tool (Sysprep) is a technology that you can use with other deployment tools to install Microsoft Windows operating systems with minimal intervention by an administrator or technician.” This tool is included by default with all of the Windows 7 versions. Generally, this tool is used to prepare a “ master ” image of a computer and deploy it to other computers.  Thanks to new “ file based imaging ” system of Windows 7, we can create a “ template ” image of a computer with all the settings and applications and deploy this image to different type (brand and model) of computers. By using sysprep, we can take off the integrated drivers from the OS. So, next time the syspreped image is booted, it is generating new SID (security identifier) and new drivers. This way, your Windows OS is not going to be in conflict with the new hardware that you are copying the image. You can use an imaging tool of your choice right after the sys...