Greetings all - thank God this forum exists 
I've installed Orchestrator 5.5 appliance and used the workflow 'Clone, Windows Sysprep with Single Nic and credential'. The end goal is to clone a template and join to a domain but I think it has a problem with the administrator password after the sysprep..
I created a Windows 2008R2 Template with vmtools installed and a default administrator password. The workflow creates the clone and assigns the correct nic, picks up a dhcp address and seems to sysprep it ok as it receives a new hostname but it always stops at the new admin password at first logon after the sysprep restart and nothing happens after that.
I can see the sysprep.xml within c:\sysprep has been created and contains all the correct settings I entered into the workflow along with the guestcustutil.exe. I read somewhere it might have issues passing an encrypted password but I can't see where to change the value to pass it as plain text?
A few things to note:
The password contains letters and numbers only.
I did change the network from vc:network to vc:distributedvirtualportgroup which it seems to have issues validating but it still works ok.
The workflows stops at 'waiting for a dns name to be created' but I think the issue happens long before that with the admin password.
If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be super appreciated.
Thanks