Sysprep

I need to make a presentation. A technical one. Somebody suggested that I make one about LINQ. And it is a great idea. This linq thing seems pretty interesting. Anyway, it requires some prep work.
First of all, my laptop is running Windows XP. And that's bad. Well, I could test linq using visual studio 2005 (http://aspalliance.com/859), but that's missing part of the fun. So I decided to set up a virtual machine with windows 2003 server.
1. I was lucky enough to find a preinstalled windows 2k3 vmware template. So the only thing I had to do is ti install vmware server, and load the template.
2. Next step was to install Visual Studio 2008, code name ORCAS, beta 2. That of course can be downloaded from: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx
3. In order to not let my work and time spent on it waste, I wanted to make a reusable virtual machine template that would have the vs2008 preinstalled. To do that I had to download something called WindowsXP-SP2-DeployTools-ENU.cab. For example from here: https://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3E90DC91-AC56-4665-949B-BEDA3080E0F6&displaylang=en
4. I had to extract it inside the virtual machine, and run the 'sysprep.exe' tool.
5. The option I had to choose was 'reseal'
6. After shutdown, the virtual machine becomes a template.

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