I’ve recently spent some time working on deploying Win2K8 servers, and thought it’d be handy to have a template to automate future deployments.

Problem is, under current (U3) VI3 code, you can’t customize the 2008 server.

I found a work around for this in the forums – at http://communities.vmware.com/message/963992#963992

The short version is that before making your VM into a template, tag it as being Windows Vista rather than Server 2008.  You’ll be able to deploy and customize.   Just remember after you deploy that VM, you’ll want to go back into it’s options and set it as being Win2008.

Have fun!