Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

Cloning is the process used to create a copy of an existing Oracle Applications system.  If you're running Release 12 on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), you can now clone your environments with Rapid Clone. 

Prerequisites

• E-Business Suite 12.0.2 Release Update Pack (RUP2, Patch 5484000)
• Rapid Clone Fixes for Windows (Patch 5872965)

Until today -- prior to the combined availability of these two patchsets -- Windows users have been restricted from using Rapid Clone.  If you had attempted to clone a Windows-based R12 environment without these prerequisites, you would have encountered issues with executing a few scripts, and some registry entries would have been set incorrectly for a number of services.
 
For full details about cloning Release 12 environments, see:

• Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone (Metalink Note 406982.1)
  

Related

• Fully Automated Cloning for Release 11i and 12