{"id":261,"date":"2012-11-16T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atumvirtwordpress.azurewebsites.net\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-11-16T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:25:00","slug":"vsphere-5-1-windows-server-2012-customization-does-not-function-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2012\/11\/vsphere-5-1-windows-server-2012-customization-does-not-function-as-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"vSphere 5.1 \/ Windows Server 2012 Customization Does Not Function as Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today while attempting to deploy some Windows Server 2012 servers from a template, I noticed they did not go through the image customization as I would expect. \u00a0After some searching, I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/423048\">thread <\/a>that had the answer:<br \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&#038;cmd=displayKC&#038;externalId=2037366\"><span>KB:\u00a0<\/span><span>2037366<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Guest OS customization of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 may not complete<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h4>Symptoms<\/h4>\n<div><content>You encounter a situation where:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are attempting to customize a Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 virtual machine.<\/li>\n<li>The customization process appears idle and is no longer making progress.<\/li>\n<li>The last entries logged in\u00a0<code>C:WindowsTEMPvmware-imcguestcust.log<\/code>\u00a0are:\n<p><code>Rescheduling Guest OS Customization<br \/>Executing command C:Windowssystem32schtasks.exe \/create ...<\/code><\/li>\n<li>vCenter Server events for the virtual machine show that customization started but there is no indication of success or failure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/content><\/div>\n<h4>Resolution<\/h4>\n<div><content>This is a known issue, and is being reviewed by VMware.<\/p>\n<p>To work around this issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reboot the virtual machine manually.<\/li>\n<li>Guest OS customization now proceeds as normal and completes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/content><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today while attempting to deploy some Windows Server 2012 servers from a template, I noticed they did not go through the image customization as I would expect. \u00a0After some searching, I came across a thread that had the answer:KB:\u00a02037366 Guest OS customization of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 may not complete Symptoms You encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}