You can run Sysprep on a reference computer running Windows Server 2003.
About this task
The System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) utility is located on the Windows product CD in the /Support/Tools/Deploy.cab file. Extract this CAB file to get sysprep.exe, setupcl.exe, setupmgr.exe, deploy.chm, ref.chm, and other programs and help files.
Procedure
sysprep.inf
file by issuing the setupmgr.exe
command to start the Setup Manager dialog.
The sysprep.inf file is used to customize each computer and to specify the information for the prompts during setup.
sysprep.inf
file.
The Setup Manager program creates the sysprep.inf file in the folder specified in the GUI.
Make sure that both the sysprep.exe file and the Setupcl.exe file exist in the %SYSTEMDRIVE%\sysprep folder on the local hard disk. To use the answer file that you created, the sysprep.inf file must also be in the folder.
Now the system is ready for capturing.
After finishing the capture task, the system restarts. The local sysprep folder containing sysprep.exe and sysprep.inf in %SYSTEMDRIVE% is deleted.