http://blogs.technet.com/b/rwagg/archive/2010/03/11/windows-7-template-creation-error.aspxI tried to create a Windows 7 template in SCVMM and it kept failing, but it would not give me an error message, it would just fail. I did some digging around and found that sysprep was failing with an error –2147024864 . I kept digging and found thaten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)