Windows guest customization fails after cloning a VMLast week I got a call from a customer. The customer has tried to deploy new Citrix Xen. App servers, and because the VMware template was a bit outdated, he tried to clone a provisioned and running Citrix Xen. App VM. During this, the customer applied a guest customization specification to customize the guest OS IP address, hostname etc. Until this point everything was fine. Symantec Procomm Plus 4.8. But after the clone process, the guest customization started, but never finished. Using the VMware template, deployment and customization were successful. So the main problem was, that the customer was unable to use a provisioned and running Windows guest to deploy new Windows guests. I checked to logs and found this error messages in the setupact. C windowssystem. Error 0x. SYSPRP Launch. Dll Failure occurred while executing C WindowsSystem. SLRe. Arm. Windows, returned error code 1. Error 0x. 0f. 00. SYSPRP Run. External. View and Download HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 2node administrators manual online. HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Administrators Manual HP 3PAR OS 3. QR48296525. Inform Management Console IMC is the Management Software which we use to manage the HPE 3PAR storage arrays. IMC provides the Graphical User Interface GUI console. Dlls An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep execution. Ret 1. 07. 34. Error 0x. SYSPRP Win. Main Hit failure while processing sysprep generalize internal providers hr 0xc. Error 0x. 0f. 00. SYSPRP Launch. Dll Failure occurred while executing C WindowsSystem. SLRe. Arm. Windows, returned error code 1. Reinstall Internet Explorer 8 Xp Sp3 2017 - Torrent 2017. Install-HP-3PAR-Management-Console-3.png' alt='3Par Cli Software' title='3Par Cli Software' />Error 0x. SYSPRP Run. External. Dlls An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep execution. Ret 1. 07. 34. Error 0x. SYSPRP Win. Main Hit failure while processing sysprep generalize internal providers hr 0xc. I checked the rearm count with slmgr. Remaining Windows rearm count 1. Remaining Windows rearm count 1. Cloning and customizing a Windows VM with a rearm count of 1 leads to the observed behaviour. After the cloning and the start of the customization, the rearm count is 0. Microsoft describes this behaviour in KB9. CAUSEThis error may occur if the Windows Software Licensing Rearm program has run more than three times in a single Windows image. The licensing for 3 Par is essentially spindle based, you can read more about it on pages 4647 of the 3Par Software QuickSpecs document httpwww8. Free HPE storage performance and capacity monitoring 3PAR XP7 MSA P2000. AutoConf iSCSI creates the iSCSI configuration following best practices for ESXi 4, 5 and 6 new in version 2. It currently works for HPE 3PAR StoreServ, HPE MSA. PAR ASICTwoedged Sword John Martin April 24, 2013. ASIC are really good for the core stuff like like RAID though Id argue that a. RESOLUTIONTo resolve this issue, you must rebuild the Windows image. Expert Maish Saidel Keesing wrote about this in his blog in 2. He explained it very well, make sure that you read his three blog posts In my case, rebuilding the template wasnt an option. Therefore I had to reset the rearm count. I searched a while and found a solution that has worked for me. Im quite sure that Microsoft doesnt allow this, therefore I will not describe this procedure in detail. You will find it easily in the webThe main task is to remove the WPA registry key. This key is protected under normal operation, so you have to do this using Win. Game Of Thrones Jon Snow Family Tree. RE Windows ecovery Environment or Win. PE Windows Preinstallation Environment. After the removal of the WPA registry key, reboot the VM, add a new key using slmgr. Windows installation. You can check the rearm counter using slmgr. Always keep in mind that you cant use sysprep with a Windows installations an infinite number of times. Windows guest customization fails after cloning a VM4. Patrick Terlisten. Patrick has nearly 2 decades of experience in IT, especially in the areas infrastructure, cloud, automation and industrialization. Patrick was selected as VMware v. Expert 2. 01. 4 2. Pernix. Data Pernix. Pro. Feel free to follow him on Twitter and or leave a comment. Latest posts by Patrick Terlisten see all.