Drive letters may change after deploying Windows Templates
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Article ID: 342975
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Products
VMware vCenter Server
Issue/Introduction
After using Sysprep or after deploying and customizing a virtual machine template in vCenter Server 2.5 and later, you may experience these symptoms:
Drive letter assignments in any Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008 machine with more than one partition or with a system partition that has a letter other than C: may change
NIC information is lost
Environment
VMware vCenter Server 4.1.x VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.x
Resolution
This is a known limitation of Microsoft's Sysprep tool.
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