VM Template and Customization specification

[vasileiosg]

Hello,

I tried to achieve this but i guess i am somewhere doing something wrong. I created the VM on Windows 2012R2 and i did a sysprep OOBE with generalize and shutdown. Once i created the file based on the wizard and i start the VM, it always end up into a welcome/wizard screen for choosing language, administrator password and that's it. Afterwards when i log in, there are no changes made in the VM. It is clear that the whole thing didn't work out.

Any ideas what am i doing wrong or how to work around it?

Thanks.

[ConstantinGhioc]

Do you have any reason not to use vCenter Guest Customization?

Customize Windows During Cloning or Deployment

[vmmerlin]

When using vCenter Guest Customization please don't prepare the VM/Template with sysprep. Just shutdown the Windows machine and convert to template. When you later create a VM from that template and configure to use guest customization, vCenter will trigger sysprep in the newly deployed VM using the options from guest customization specification.