Forgot to run Sysprep before migrating a VM to a new Azure account

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I've been tasked with migrating our VMs from our old Azure Account to our new one.

I knew nothing about anything when I started the process a few days ago. I decided the best thing to do was take it one step at a time. So I reassigned our subscription, moved the storage blobs, disassociated the Os's with the old disks and deleted all the VM's. I just created the new disks from the VHDs in the Blob.

The last step was to create an image from the disk so I could make the new VM's. Turns out, I should have run Sysprep. I didn't.

What. Do. I. Do. Questionmark.

Create a new VM with the VHD. Sysprep new VM. Deploy production VM's from Sysprepped VHD. Done. — joeqwerty, Jan 11 '16 at 17:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '16 at 17:34

You should just need to sysprep any machines you imaged with the un-sysprepped image. Make sure to take an image of one of these to use for a new standard image (This will need to be done after you sysprep and before you boot the system back into the OS for the OOBE or automated configuration.

Forgot to run Sysprep before migrating a VM to a new Azure account

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