Windows Server 2012 - Sysprep

Problem

I don't deploy large amounts of servers at once, so with Server 2012 sysprep is not as important as it is with the client operating systems I deploy. But I do need to create virtual machine templates, (mostly for testing), but some clients like to have server templates. I prefer to manually sysprep and shutdown a server then either convert or clone it to a template.

Thankfully sysprep is in the same place as it was with Server 2008 R2.

Solution

As before you can either run sysprep from command line by navigating to its location and running it with the correct switches. Or simply browse to it with Windows Explorer and double click it.

 

Step:

Goto==>  This PC\C drive\windows\system32\sysprep