How to Sysprep Windows 2008 Server

Sysprep is now available within Windows 2008 Server. You no longer have to hunt it down and create a folder, etc., etc.

Go to a command line of the Windows 2008 server that you want to run sysprep on
Go to the C:\Windows\System32\Sysprprep
Run sysprep.exe
Choose (OOBE) System Out of Box Experience and Select Reboot

The server will run sysprep and reboot
Done!

How to Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security for Windows 2008 Server

Close your Browser
Open up Server Manager and select the Root Folder
Then scroll down to the Security Information Section

The select Configure IE ESC

Check OFF Administrators then select OK

Open up your Browser
Done!

Problem adding an Extent in VCenter 4.0

I had a problem that I could not add an Extent to an exsiting VMFS datastore using VCenter 4
The extent is not visible when you attempt to increase the DataStore within VCenter 4.

The workaround is to use the VSpehere client and connect directly to the ESX server. The extent in visible when you connect to the ESX server directly. This is most likley a bug in VCenter which will be fixed with a patch or the next release.