I am new to building and maintaining ESXi in my lab (ESXi 6.0.0b) but I never got the sysprep part of the VMware stuff to work for Win81 or Server 2012+ (haven't tried Win10 yet). I learned to manually run sysprep instead.
Webster ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Leone <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Fwd: Win 2012 client registration problems to WSUS v3 Win 2008 server They are VMs, created form a VMware Template. It runs sysprep as part of the creation process, yes (or is supposed to, maybe the sysprepping isn't working for Win2012). On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Were these boxes cloned from one another? http://blogs.technet.com/b/csstwplatform/archive/2012/05/28/wsus-script-to-delete-duplicate-sid-created-by-disk-imaging-disk-cloning.aspx That was it, yes. The first 2 deletes failed, saying key doesn't exist, but the 3rd one passed, and do a "resetauthorization" and "detectnow" did work, and all showed up properly. Not sure what is different in my Win2012 template as opposed to my Win2008 template (only the Win2012 VMs showed a problem, not the Win2008 VMs), but I can dig into that, and make it a point to run this script as part of the rollout process. Thanks ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a WSUS v3.2.7600.226 server, running on Win 2008 R2. It has 150+ clients, including some Win 2012 R2 clients. All has been working fine for a few years. Now I am seeing an odd problem. Yesterday I created 2 new Win 2012 R2 clients, and Group Policy set them to use the WSUS server, as usual. But the odd thing: Only 1 client at a time shows up, they both won't show at the same time. Here's what I mean: 2 clients, SERVER8 and SERVER9. Neither was showing up in the "All Computers" group, so I went to each, restarted the BITS and Windows Update service, and issued a "wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow". This is what I usually do for Win 2008 R2 clients, who are having problems communicating with the WSUS server. So I did that on SERVER8, and it then showed up in WSUS. I then did the same on SERVER9. Oddly, SERVER8 then disappeared from WSUS, and SERVER9 showed up. It's like I can have one or the other, but not both at the same time. :-) DNS is correct, each shows the proper IP address (when it does show up). I see nothing in the Windows Event Logs of the WSUS server. I don't see any errors in the WindowsUpdate.log file of the server. And I see no errors in that file on the clients - in fact, I see things like "4 updates detected", but nothing after to indicate why it's dropping off the list. Ideas? Where to go next?
