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Creation of Virtual Machine Fails – StatusCode: 610–MandatorySysPrepEntryNotFound

Working with the team in creating new virtual machine templates I found that some of our Windows 7 templates when they are being deployed with the following error: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter ProductKey. (StatusCode: 610–MandatorySysPrepEntryNotFound) I attempted to do some google searching which gave me no information for […]

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Software Technical

System Center – Virtual Machine Manager Error (12700)

Creating several templates in SCVMM today I encountered the an error with the id of ‘12700’ with the message: Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation on the s0106hvlab5.jermsmit.local server because of the error: ‘W10_64_jermsmit’ could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID B4B770E3-9DD7-4C3F-B2A5-36CA37151600) Not enough memory in the system to start the virtual machine W10_64_jermsmit with […]

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Hyper-V: Compact Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk

I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]

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Capability Profiles in SCVMM 2012

Encounter the follow issues after importing a Hyper-V image created to be used in my SCVMM / APP Center environment: Two Errors: Message: The virtual machine configuration cannot target a host due to placement errors. (StatusCode: 22039–PlacementErrorsPresentInVmConfig) Message: The virtual machine workload test01 specifies settings that are not allowed by any capability profile supported by […]

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Hyper-V VM Creation Fails – Product Key

Yes! Another error, and another thing to learn. I ran in to an issue while importing a new template from an existing image. Error message was: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter Product Key. It seems that the new machine is looking for a product key. The […]