What does sysprep with the generalize option do on Windows Server 2008 R2?

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Published on 2010-05-29T15:36:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 15:42 UTC
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I want to create a template of Windows Server 2008 R2 for virtualization. Therefore I use the sysprep tool by Microsoft. This works fine. I just wonder what the generalize option is good for.

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