Windows 2008

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Best practice for VMs (take with a pinch of salt)

Disable ASLR

Address space layout randomisation is a feature which involves randomly arranging the positions of key data areas, in order to mitigate memory snapshot image vulnerabilities (which is generally not a problem). This can reduce reduce VMware's page sharing between VM's, increasing overall physical memory usage.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\"MoveImages"=dword:00000000

Procedures

Sysprep

  1. Start sysprep from C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe
  2. Leave action as Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) and tick the poorly spelt Generalize tick-box, then hit OK
  3. Sysprep will run and reboot the OS
    • You'll need to provide a new password, and any hostname and IP details will need updating

Troubleshooting

Default Gateway Loss

Known bug in Windows 2008 SP2 causes the default gateway of a machine to disappear on reboot. Resolved by resetting the IP stack and re-entering the IP config

  1. Record IP details
    • ipconfig/all > C:\ipconfig.txt
  2. Reset the IP stack
    • netsh int ip reset
  3. Restart server
  4. Re-enter IP config
  5. Reboot to confirm its held

There's a bugfix available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973243

Scheduled Tasks

Error 2147943712 You're trying to save a task that wants to save credentials (maybe because you want the task to run even when the user is logged off), but credential saving has been disabled by a GPO.