Hi Carl & James, Wow thanks so much for your help guys, it must have been my domain profile which I left on the image causing the sysprep errors. I have tried again and no errors so I have to thank you big time. James - I also did make sure that before running sysprep this time I left it in same OU so group policy didn't change my admin user account or password from when the gold image was first created, so between the 2 things sysprep still works. Thanks again, although now im looking at PVS I think its time to try it out as be great to get running. Cheers Al From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Stalhood Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012 9:11 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: PVS v SCCM virtual images In that case you'll probably need to press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt and then cleanup the profiles under C:\Users. Delprof2.exe does a good job. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Alan Tropper <Alan.Tropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Alan.Tropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi Carl, Cheers I'll give that a go, the error is when sysprep kicks in on the image it try to start up windows and then throws an error. What I've been doing is creating the image then selecting sysprep shutdown. The server does register against our KMS server so not seeing an activation issue with windows. Then when I take a copy of the image and start it up sysprep starts to run and its half way through here I get an unknown error when the windows splash screen is in the background. Cheers Al From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Carl Stalhood Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 6:29 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [THIN] Re: PVS v SCCM virtual images As long as Windows is currently activated against a KMS server, rearm shouldn't be a problem. I've done it way more than 3 times. Run slmgr.vbs /dlv to verify activation. It should show you having 1 rearm left. If not activated yet, run slmgr.vbs /ato. Slmgr.vbs /dlv should now show 1 rearm left. Then sysprep should run successfully. I assume you're seeing the sysprep error before it reboots. Sysprep errors after it reboots are usually caused by local profiles. If the system is currently hosed, there are a couple registry keys under HKLM\Systems\Setup\Status\Sysprep that can be changed to enable sysprep again. I think Cleanup is 2 and Generalization is 7. Make sure slmgr.vbs is activated and try it again. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Alan Tropper <Alan.Tropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Alan.Tropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi Joe, After I amend the image for the 4th time when the golden image is re-deployed and it kicks into sysprep build fails with an unknown error. This is an expected issue but one I wasn't aware of at the time, see link below: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/05/11/sysprep-skiprearm-and-image-build-best-practices.aspx My image would have citrix installed and all I would do is re-name, join to domain and join to citrix farm....but now I need to look at another way to create my golden image and deploy. Cheers Al From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 9:39 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [THIN] Re: PVS v SCCM virtual images What issue are you having with re-arming? Also, SCCM and PVS accomplish two different things. Joe On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Alan Tropper <Alan.Tropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Alan.Tropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Hi All, I am looking at building new citrix images as currently using ESXi with a citrix vmdk, however with win2008R2 and the sysprep issues of only re-arming 3 times (including service packs) this has left me to re-think how to deliver a citrix image. I have read a little about PVS and SCCM but was wondering how best everyone else handles this topic, any good links on how to configure these would also be a great help. 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