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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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Sysprep Windows Server 2008 R2

Today I was working on testing some systems when some of the errors I had been getting eluded to the machines security information not being unique from other systems. It’s time for sysprep, but first we need to find it. Is it on the DVD media…? No! Perhaps we have to cross a broken Bridge, […]

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VHD! Booting Windows 8

Why wipe your system clean to preview Windows 8 developer preview when you can simply use the good old VHD to boot it up on your system. Here is the quickest method to do this.  <Warning — This is GEEK / not GREEK > Boot from the Win8dev DVD or USB When in setup the […]