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Table 2‑15. Required Custom Properties for WIM Blueprints (Continued)
Custom Property Description
VirtualMachine.Admin.Owner
Species the user name of the machine owner.
VMware.VirtualCenter.OperatingSystem
Species the vCenter Server guest operating system version
(VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier) with which
vCenter Server creates the machine. This operating system
version must match the operating system version to be
installed on the provisioned machine. Administrators can
create property groups using one of several property sets,
for example, VMware[OS_Version]Properties, that are
predened to include the correct
VMware.VirtualCenter.OperatingSystem values. This
property is for virtual provisioning.
For related information, see the enumeration type
VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier in vSphere
API/SDK Documentation. For a list of currently accepted
values, see the vCenter Server documentation.
Optional custom properties are also available for WIM blueprints.
Table 2‑16. Common Custom Properties for WIM Blueprints
Custom Property Description
SysPrep.Section.Key
n
SysPrep.GuiUnattended.AdminPassword
n
SysPrep.GuiUnattended.EncryptedAdminPassword
n
SysPrep.GuiUnattended.TimeZone
Species information to be added to the SysPrep answer
le on machines during the WinPE stage of provisioning.
Information that already exists in the SysPrep answer le is
overwrien by these custom properties. Section represents
the name of the section of the SysPrep answer le, for
example GuiUnaended or UserData. Key represents a key
name in the section. For example, to set the time zone of a
provisioned machine to West Pacic Standard Time, dene
the custom property
GuiUnattended.UserData.TimeZone and set the value to
275.
For a full list of sections, keys, and accepted values, see the
System Preparation Utility for Windows documentation.
The following Section.Key combinations can be specied for
WIM-based provisioning:
n
GuiUnaended
n
AdminPassword
n
EncryptedAdminPassword
n
TimeZone
n
UserData
n
ProductKey
n
FullName
n
ComputerName
n
OrgName
n
Identication
n
DomainAdmin
n
DomainAdminPassword
n
JoinDomain
n
JoinWorkgroup
Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin
Species a user name with administrator-level access to the
target domain in Active Directory. Do not include the user
domain in the credentials that you send to vCloud Director
or vCloud Air.
Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdminPassword
Species the password to associate with the
Sysprep.Identification.DomainAdmin property.
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