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Lee Wynne | May 31st, 2008 | Continued

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How to use the sysprep components of Virtual Center to automate the provisioning of virtual machines

This article demonstrates how you can upload the components of Microsoft’s sysprep utility to your Virtual Center server and then use it for fast, automated virtual machine provisioning.

Once you have installed Virtual Center and set up your first virtual machine from your standard build documentation, you may want to use this new virtual machine as a template or clone to create many others.

Virtual Center supports the cloning of virtual machines and can also prepare the virtual machine for cloning by using Microsoft’s sysprep utility. 

Here is how it is done: