Hi,
i'd like to create a template of a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM which breaks a lot due to perserving testing and playing. What is the best way to do so, if I don't want to run into reactivation problems with MS? Is a reactivision necessary if you just clone2template a VM after activating it and deploy from that template later on? Or isn't that a problem at all if you perform a "regular" template deployment without sysprep customization?
Other possibilities I could think of would be to perform the activation each time after deploying (this sure would deactivate my licence after a few times) or maybe clone that VM after activation.