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depends on what you want to do.<br />
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you can either, 1. copy the vhd out as your copy and keep it aside.. just recopy when you need.<br />
or 2. you can use sysprep to prep a server out from there.<br />
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I will prefer the sysprep method<br />
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please read <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577</a>&nbsp;for sysprep procedure
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depends on what you want to do.

you can either, 1. copy the vhd out as your copy and keep it aside.. just recopy when you need.
or 2. you can use sysprep to prep a server out from there.


I will prefer the sysprep method


please read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577] for sysprep procedure

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I like the first solution better. Do I create a second virtual server and then just replace the vhd file?
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I like the first solution better. Do I create a second virtual server and then just replace the vhd file?

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and you need to rename your workstation as well .. or else will have conflict name ..
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and you need to rename your workstation as well .. or else will have conflict name ..

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I have created a virtual server and installed the OS and completed the updates.<br />
How can I create new servers by making copies of this one?
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I have created a virtual server and installed the OS and completed the updates.
How can I create new servers by making copies of this one?

Copy a virtual server

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.