Windows 2008 R2 server, Customization Wizard & activation keys

We are using ESX 4 u1 and deploying a lot of windows 2008 R2 VM

I created a model and a Customization Wizard customization file and everything seems to work except the license key. When the VM boots, I find the server are not enabled and the license key box is disabled - I provide the same license key that I put in the Customization Wizard and enroll the server manually without problem.

Is this correct?  -J' saw a few items that indicate the changes MS made to the activation of the ways windows 2008, you must manually enable each virtual machine that you create from a template.

Is it possible to automate this process for the virtual machine is activated as part of the initial configuration of a model.

I'm currently going through the same thing... The only thing I met, was that:

http://briandesmond.com/blog/how-to-Sysprep-in-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7/

«If you expect to need to generalize the computer more than one»

many times, you can specify that the Windows Software Licensing Rearm

program to be ignored:

1. set the Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP\SkipRearm unattended installation

set value to 1. This option specifies that the computer will not

reset, and it will not be restored to its original, out-of-box state.

All licensing and registry data related to activation will remain and will be

do not be reset. Similarly, any period of grace-timers are not reset. »

Now, this talking abot deploying from a platform WAIK... one of the people said that it did in its VMware implemented and "it worked great"... but I don't really know if he spoke the WAIK lab vm system or the model of VMWare itself.  I now try the SkipRearm setting 1 and the conversion to the template... then test will deploy from there.  I activated the virtual machine is already using my MSDN key (this will be in my lab).  I hope that during Sysprep running, it leaves the active system.

The key in question is: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform and HKLM\Software\Wow6432NodeMicrosoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform.

I changed the two entries of SkipRearm DWord to 1... We'll see what happens.

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