As a part of standardize environment, we are creating templates in virtual environment and once there is requirements from projects, we will create Virtual machines from these templates and deliver them. In turn this will save lot of time in installation& configuration.
So in this template, we have installed SQL server 2012 and then created Virtual machines.
We saw a strange behavior, resource who installed SQL server has access to these server but despite of providing permission for Sys Admin, we are not able to login to SQL Management Studio & that particular resource is.
And then when we connected template, we found that newly created VM & template are referring to same instance of SQL server and users we added in VM are also displaying in template.
So it seems either pre installation of SQL server is not possible in template OR we are missing something.
If pre install is not possible then can you please suggest approach to fulfill this requirement. One can be using PowerShell script to install SQL server after VM is created.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Technical Project Manager cum Architect
