Templates in SCVMM 2008 R2 and SCVMM 2012 R2

Hi Experts,
I have few questions regarding VM Template creation using SCVMM.
1. What is the difference between VM templates in SCVMM 2008 R2 and SCVMM 2012 R2 ?
2. I could not see the three folders (Snapshots, Virtual hard disks and Virtual Machines) of SCVMM 2008 R2 template in a template created using SCVMM 2012 R2. Only the vhd files are present in the template. What about the config.xml file?
3. Can we customize the config.xml for our VM installations?
4. Do we need to sysprep a VM or vhd file before creating a Template ? If yes, how to do it ?
Thanks,
Saleem

The reason that I am confused is that you should not have gotten a config.xml file, even with VMM 2008.
The only time that SCVMM ever saved that (that I recall) is when a VM was stored to the Library, which is a different action than creating a template.
All of the template settings are stored in the SCVMM database.  If you have a custom unattend.xml that is merged with the one that SCVMM generates on the fly at deployment time, then that is stored in the Library.  But the one that SCVMM generates
based on the OS Profile is never physically save in the Library.  SCVMM always uses an unattend.xml whenever a Windows OS template is deployed.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb740827.aspx
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