Looklike Sysprep issue Timeout while creating the VM after out of customization Image for AVD

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Looklike Sysprep issue Timeout while creating the VM after out of customization Image for AVD

Nishikant raj 1

I am creating one vm after the cutsimation and snapshot and vm cretion but facing issue while running the script vm creation take and doesn`t work



param([switch]$runSysprep=$false)
write-output "Sysprep Script Run, parameter 'runSysprep': $runSysprep"

if($runSysprep){
	write-output "starting Sysprep"
	Start-Process -FilePath C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep.exe -ArgumentList '/generalize /oobe /shutdown /quiet'
	write-output "started Sysprep"
}

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Olga Os - MSFT 5,951 Microsoft Employee

Hello Nishikant raj,

Welcome to the MS Q&A forum.

Please make sure you deleted the panther directory (C:\Windows\Panther) before running the 'sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /shutdown'.

Another option to find the root cause is to attach the OS disk as data disk of the failed VM to any other working VM and review the c:\windows\panther\ logs.

Source:

Remove machine specific information by deprovisioning or generalizing a VM before creating an image

I hope this helps!

Kindly mark the answer as Accepted and Upvote in case it helped!

Regards,

Olga Os.

Nishikant raj 1 Reputation point

2023-10-13T06:14:44.8066667+00:00

so we have to delet the panther folder in the base vm?
Olga Os - MSFT 5,951 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-13T16:16:52.04+00:00

Correct. This tutorial provide necessary steps to create the image, and you need to delete this directory on the VM from which you create the image before running sysprep.

Sincerely, Olga Os.
Nishikant raj 1 Reputation point

2023-10-13T18:06:20.2933333+00:00

We are using Powershell script with Azure DevOps pipeline do you have any powershell command which we can add it it will be really helpful so we can check and test it
Olga Os - MSFT 5,951 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-13T18:14:53.31+00:00

You could try with the 'Remove-Item':

Remove-Item -Path "C:\Windows\Panther" -Recurse -Force

Sincerely,

Olga Os.
Olga Os - MSFT 5,951 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-10-19T21:27:07.2133333+00:00

Hello Nishikant raj,

Thank you for your question!

If the answer has been helpful, please consider accepting the answer to help increase visibility of this question for other members of the Microsoft Q&A community. If not, please let us know what is still needed in the comments so the question can be answered. Thank you for helping to improve Microsoft Q&A!

Hope above answers your question.

Thanks!

Olga Os.

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