Install windows 8 or windows server 2012 or later editions in a virtual machine. How to sysprep a windows 10 virtual machine for hyperv or. One of the advantages of using the windows deployment server is that wds can work with windows image. Customize windows by adding drivers, changing settings, and installing programs. The builtin windows system preparation tool, sysprep to put it short, is a tool not very well known outside the geek circles although it is quite easy and simple to use. Thankfully sysprep is in the same place as it was with server 2008 r2. Account issues when using sysprep windows 10 forums. From the system cleanup action menu, select enter system outofbox experience oobe. How to make an unattended sysprep for windows with. Windows server 2012 core server configuration, add. If the system preparation tool window is still open, click generalize, click shutdown, and then click ok to generalize the image and shut down the pc. For using the same system image for different virtual machines or physical computer, microsoft created a tool called sysprep.
Disk cleanup cleanmgr command line arguments in windows 10. How to sysprep in windows server 2008 r2 and windows 7. Later versions introduced for windows 2000 and windows xp are available for download from microsoft and included in the windows cd. Use sysprep to create images of windows server 2012 for vms. The process has changed significantly since previous versions of windows. In addition, using sysprep gui you have to name your answer file if one is used exactly as unattend. If you do not run sysprep, you can quickly run in to problems when uniquely identifying information about your source machine is duplicated across the. Applies settings in an answer file to windows during an unattended installation, where specifies the path and file name of the answer file to use. How to use slmgr to change, remove, or extend your windows. Windows 7 image capture demonstration utilize windows. If you are using windows 10 th2 or newer you can use a windows 7 or 8 license key. On windows 7, search the start menu for command prompt, rightclick it, and select run as administrator. If you want to modify the default profile, you must modify your current profile and then use true in a command line call to sysprep.
If you intend to create an image of an installation for deployment to a different computer, you must run the sysprep command together with the generalize option, even if the other computer has. This is particularly handy for those windows 8 pcs that have the key embedded in the bios. Sysprep, the familiar system preparation tool used for preparing a windows installation for deployment using disk imaging, is now built directly into vista. Imagex is a commandline tool that enables original equipment manufacturers oems and corporations to capture, modify, and apply windows images for rapid deployment. When building a template along the lines of those mentioned by jonathan in the first post of his series, there are a few things to do. My point is, sysprep gui is only a tool to set command switches and then run the command. One of the questions customers often ask is what the heck does the new vm switch do in sysprep. This topic describes the commandline syntax for the system preparation sysprep tool. As with many executables that you run from a command prompt, there are a variety of optional switches that you can tag onto the end of your command. Run sysprep to prepare a windows installation to be captured. From within the configured profile youve created, open a command prompt. How to sysprep sysprep is a great and powerful tool and.
This process allows enterprises to efficiently and continuously roll out uptodate windows 10 deployment images. When sysprep runs, it goes through the following process. At the command line, run the sysprep generalize shutdown command. Running sysprep on windows vista20087 operating systems. Learn how to use sysprep for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2. How to sysprep windows more than three 3 times rearm. The computer will automatically restart and boot to the audit mode. The setting specified in the answer file cannot be applied thus opted to use the standard sysprep command. The builtin windows tool, disk cleanup, which can be launched as cleanmgr.
Systemspecific information includes event logs, unique security ids sids, and other unique information. Sysprep is a critical step to deploying new system images both for client computers and servers. How to sysprep in windows vista and windows server 2008. Customize windows 10 image in audit mode with sysprep. Run command line installations from the target endpoint. Before running these commands, download the endpoint installer for the command to use. This tutorial is a short introduction to the wonderful world of sysprep. Learn how to use sysprep for windows vista and windows server 2008. Sysprep prepares a windows installation windows client and windows server for imaging, allowing you to capture a. Alone it can do quite little, basically only two tasks. The first one is a run script task that has the sysprep cmds you see in my other article, without your audit switches.
Imagex is a command line tool that creates an image from a reference computer. I am having problems sysprepping a windows 10 pro computer where sysprep runs fine and then after the reboot computer boots. Run the sysprep command without unattend switch, the answer file will be automatically read and used, machine is automatically shut down after the sysprep if quit or reboot switches are. There is a very good article on sysprep providers background and how they work. Sysprep is the tool used to prepare a windows installation for image capture, or to prepare an installation to be shipped to an end user. My gut tells me that its something related to the fact that the ec2config. Sysprep can be run in 2 modes, the gui mode or command line.
The options available here can also be set using command line switches when sysprep is run from the command prompt as outlined above. To run sysprep in windows 10, open windows explorer and navigate to c. And a quick look at the sysprep commandline options on microsoft technet makes it plain that the sysprep utility in windows 10 is basically the same as in windows 7. Solution as before you can either run sysprep from command line by navigating to its location and running it with the correct switches. The sysprep command is located in the following path. The jump client command line installer has switches which allow a script to modify a variety of jump client parameters when executed. Run sysprep generalize on the upgraded image, recapture the updated image, and deploy the image to new devices. In the system preparation tool window, select the options. To do that, open up an administrative command prompt and browse to c.
I asked a few deployment experts whether there is anything different when using sysprep on windows 10 compared with using it on previous versions. If you want to perform a silent installation on a windows endpoint, see the commands below. Windows sysprep for virtual machines thomas maurer. Closes the sysprep tool without rebooting or shutting down the computer after sysprep runs the specified commands. Do not install any microsoft store apps using the microsoft store. Windows image files could be created through the use of the windows sysprep utility. One of the tools we focused on, of course, was sysprep. Unfortunately its syntax has changed somewhat from previous versions, and if youre going to deploy vista you need to know the new commandline options for this tool. To use this tool, youll want to launch a command prompt with administrator access. Sysprep was originally introduced for use with windows nt 4. In this case, im assuming that the answer files name is sysprep.
Also, sysprep must run on the version of windows that you used to install sysprep. This blog post covers most people should be already familiar with that tool. And i was, as expected, greeted by a gasp command line interface. Sysprep system preparation overview microsoft docs. So, i started up a new vm and installed windows 2012 server standard core. Sccm ts fails with error unable to sysprep the machine. Because shutdown is default behaviour, if no shutdown option switch is given as in above command example windows will shut down when finished, next boot being to audit mode. These commands can be run either manually or through automation.
Click here to fix windows errors and optimize system performance you can learn the switches available for disk cleanup by. Ok, so i edited the file to only join to one domain instead of trying to prompt for three domains, but still the same issue. The normal ways according to microsoft to bypass syspreps 3 times limit, is to create the windows image from scratch or to capture an image from the machine before running sysprep for first time and when you reach the three 3 times rearm limit, you will deploy the captured image. When the run command prompt opens, browse to the sysprep executable file and click ok. So essentially i use a script to execute sysprep, because i was not getting anywhere tyring to use the built in feature of the capture task. Typically you shouldnt need to pass any commands to sysprep in order for it to read you f. This allows you to create custom mass deployment scripts to pull in variables from other sources and use the variables to modify the jump client parameters at install time. If you do not run sysprep, you can quickly run in to problems when uniquely identifying information about your source machine is duplicated across the network. Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass specialize. Add endpoints in malwarebytes nebula malwarebytes support.
You can also just type sysprep in the run command and click enter. Type the following command to start the sysprep process. Close any open applications and type the run command in the windows vista20087 start search command prompt. Wdsutil is a commandline utility to manage your windows deployment services server. Sysprep generalize a windows installation microsoft docs. Windows server 2019 enabling quick server rollouts with. Deploy jump clients from the administrative interface. Sysprep is a hidden tool and can only be run from the command prompt by an administrator.