<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Here's a quick and easy way to install the Windows 2003 R2 sysprep tools on a VMware vCenter server:</span></p>

1) Download and run <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93F20BB1-97AA-4356-8B43-9584B7E72556&amp;displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93F20BB1-97AA-4356-8B43-9584B7E72556&amp;displaylang=en</a>
2) Open this compressed file <span style="text-decoration: underline;">c:windowssystem32deploy.cab</span>  and copy the contents to the folder <span style="text-decoration: underline;">C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataVMwareVMware VirtualCentersysprepsvr2003</span>

Here's a link to a great page with instructions for obtaining sysprep files for other Windows versions: <a href="http://www.vm-help.com/esx/other/sysprep_download_links.html">http://www.vm-help.com/esx/other/sysprep_download_links.html</a>