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5 Navigate to your script file and click Open.
The file must be in a
6 Click OK.
Reset Your Virtual Machine's Password
You can reset your virtual machine's password.
Prerequisites
The virtual machine's guest OS is personalized, and your virtual machine is powered off.
Procedure
1 Click My Cloud.
2 In the left pane, click VMs.
3 Select a virtual machine, right-click, and select Properties.
4 On the Guest OS Customization tab, select the Enable guest customization check box.
5 Select the Allow local administrator password check box.
6 To force all administrators to change the password at the initial log in, select the Require administrator
to change password on first login check box.
Administrators must know the old password.
7 Determine whether you want an automatically generated password.
To use a specific password, select Specify password and type it.
8 (Optional) To use a specific password, select Specify password and type the password.
9 Click OK.
The password for your virtual machine is reset.
Domain Join Requirements for Windows
The automatic domain join feature has several requirements.
During the customization process, for Windows 2000, Microsoft Sysprep attempts to join the domain before
network customization occurs. Therefore, the network properties of the source virtual machine are used to
attempt to join the domain.
If the source virtual machine network properties are such that the domain controller is not resolvable,
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domain join fails.
If the source virtual machine was configured with a manually configured DNS, that DNS is contacted to
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resolve the domain controller even if the manually configured DNS is not on the network. In the case
where the DNS cannot be found, domain join fails.
If the source Windows 2000 virtual machine was configured with DHCP, the new network DHCP is used
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to attempt to resolve the domain controller. In this case, if the DNS that is configured to the DHCP can
resolve the domain controller, domain join succeeds.
During customization for Microsoft Windows XP or later, Microsoft Sysprep resets the guest to configure the
network settings to DHCP before attempting to join the domain, regardless of the source virtual machine or
network settings. For automatic domain join to succeed, the DHCP on the network must be able to resolve the
domain controller.
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