Prepare your machine template for VMWare

It doesn't make sense if you have a lot of machines, based on the same operating system, and you have to set up this manually. So usually you should use templates of virtual machines.

Before you can use a virtual machine template (in my case the server 2008) you have to prepare this  for use.
After installing a OS on a machine, there will be created a unique number, it's called SID (Security Identifier).
If you want to clone this machine, including the OS, you have to change this SID, the machine name, maybe the productcode and so on.

The advantage of the Windows Server 2008, there is a internal tool which can do all this things.
You can find this tool in following directory:
C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep

On this screenshot you can see my settings. After the system was shut down you can copy the virtual machine.
After booting this machine, there will start a small installation of windows, which will prepare the system for use.

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