An SCCM task sequence will only do what you tell it to do. If you tell it to sysprep and generalize, it will. i can't answer whether VMM will take care of the generalization, though a quick google gave me a page link to say how to create templates ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696970.aspx) It looks like VMM does not generalize the VM, it needs to be added to the library ready-to-go/
something we found (using MDT 2013 to build our VMware templates) is that executing Sysprep will only work for Microsoft technologies... When you deploy the VM via a microsoft deployment tool, it will inject unattend.xml files and bootstrap files into the right locations to ensure it works as designed.... if you deploy to VMware, DO NOT sysprep. IT WILL BREAK the guest customizations. VMware will sysprep itself when you deploy from template. in short, use MDT if you can for capturing, it will leave the VM in a management system agnostic state. If you use SCCM, you need to ensure that you perform clean up tasks before "capturing" the VM. thats my 2 cents On 13 June 2015 at 08:44, Miller, Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > When I use SCCM to build a VHD, does it generalize the VHD for use as a > master VM automatically or is it making an image that is suitable for only > a single VM? > > > > When I pass the VHD that SCCM creates to the Virtualization team, is that > VM going to be generalized, or does VMM take care of generalizing the VHD, > or if we want to end up with 40 personal/persistent VMs, do I need to > create 40 VHDs and hand them all off to the Virtualization team. > > > > Similarly, is it possible to use SCCM 2012 R2 to create a VHD that is > suitable for pooled use? Does my task sequence have to take care of the > generalization? > > > > I guess what I don’t know is, it *feels* like I should be using a TS that > is similar to Build and Capture to build these VHDs so that they can be > used as templates for new machines in VMM rather than a standard deployment > TS where there is a one-to-one VHD to VM relationship. > > > > There are 1000 blogs out there with screenshots of how to create the VHD > in SCCM 2012r2, but they are all very light on discussion or guidance. > Create the VHD and hand it off/upload it to VMM…. And then what? > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by > the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is > confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, > distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, > then delete it. Thank you. > ------------------------------ >
