{"id":61,"date":"2008-10-15T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2008\/10\/15\/How+To+Sysprep+Windows+Server+2008"},"modified":"2008-10-15T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T17:47:56","slug":"how-to-sysprep-windows-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/how-to-sysprep-windows-server-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sysprep Windows Server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going sysprep a base image of Windows Server 2008 this morning and followed <a href=\"\/2007\/07\/11\/How-To-Sysprep-Windows\">my own instructions on sysprepping Windows<\/a>. I went to the installation DVD and couldn&#8217;t find sysprep. A quick google later and a bit of poking around revealed that sysprep is now installed by default on Windwos Server 2008. You can find it at:<\/p>\n<p>c:\\Windows\\System32\\sysprep\\sysprep.exe<\/p>\n<p>The experience is also streamlined considerably. Simply run sysprep.exe above and you are presented with:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/HowtoSysprepWindowsServer2008_A5E4\/image_6.png\" border=\"0\" height=\"254\" width=\"345\"> <\/p>\n<p>Check the &#8220;Generalize&#8221; checkbox (regenerates system SID), change the Shutdown Options to &#8220;Shutdown&#8221;, and click OK. The system will go through the sysprep process and shut itself down. You can now create cloned servers to your heart&#8217;s content simply by creating linked servers and booting the clone as originally documented <a href=\"\/2007\/07\/11\/How-To-Sysprep-Windows\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Benjamin Chau noticed that SIDs weren&#8217;t being regenerated. Turns out that you need to check the Generalize checkbox to make that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going sysprep a base image of Windows Server 2008 this morning and followed my own instructions on sysprepping Windows. I went to the installation DVD and couldn&#8217;t find sysprep. A quick google later and a bit of poking around revealed that sysprep is now installed by default on Windwos Server 2008. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}