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[Bulk Archived] Deploying virtual machine from template fails with error: Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration, restart the computer (1030699)

Last Updated: 3/20/2024Categories: Total Views: 18624Language:
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Symptoms

Deploying a template finishes successfully without customization and the virtual machine starts up without any issues

You see this error on the start up of the customized virtual machine:

Windows could not finish configuring the system. To attempt to resume configuration,
restart the computer

In German, the error is:

Die Konfiguration des Systems konnte nicht abgeschlossen werden. Starten Sie den Computer neu, um die Konfiguration forzusetzen.

Note: The issue has only been seen on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 servers, which have sysprep included. Windows XP or 2003 is not affected by this issue.

Resolution

The issue can occur if antivirus software is installed in the template which causes sysprep to fail.

To resolve this issue, convert the template back to a virtual machine, uninstall antivirus from the template, convert the virtual machine back to a template, and use customization while deploying from template.

If you do not have any antivirus installed, use this workaround:

Convert the template to a virtual machine that has Live Essentials 2011 installed on it.

Install the hotfix available in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 981542.

Convert the virtual machine back to template.

Deploy the virtual machine.

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