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Thanks Andrew and becraig. I will be working on this and I will let you know my results.
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Thanks Andrew and becraig. I will be working on this and I will let you know my results.

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Both solution would work and I appreciate the guidance. I am using WDS on a Server 2012 R2 to create and deploy the correctly sized images and simplify future deployments. &nbsp;I am creating a new base image and basically cloning old systems.
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Both solution would work and I appreciate the guidance. I am using WDS on a Server 2012 R2 to create and deploy the correctly sized images and simplify future deployments.  I am creating a new base image and basically cloning old systems.

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I need soma assistance with shrinking existing VMs. It seems it is the containers that hold all the VM components that is not able to be shrunk due to data blocks that can't be moved. For example: I have a Windows 7 VM that is 300 GB in size but there is actually 187 GB of free space on the virtual HDD. The HyperV host is a Windows Server 2012 RS and I use the HYper-V Manager. Most of the oversized VM were created from cloning one of the original existing machines. Any thoughts?
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I need soma assistance with shrinking existing VMs. It seems it is the containers that hold all the VM components that is not able to be shrunk due to data blocks that can't be moved. For example: I have a Windows 7 VM that is 300 GB in size but there is actually 187 GB of free space on the virtual HDD. The HyperV host is a Windows Server 2012 RS and I use the HYper-V Manager. Most of the oversized VM were created from cloning one of the original existing machines. Any thoughts?

Shrinking VMs

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.