andyturpie Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 Morning, Is there anyway of bulk injecting windows updates into a WIM file? DISM seems a bit long winded and was wondering if there was a more autonomous way (possibly GUI) Our Win 7 images for our CC4 estate are still asking for in excess of 120+ windows updates after build completion. I would like to find a quick way of slipstreaming these into the main WIM to drastically reduce the build times if poss?
Sagima Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 NTlite might be able to do that. I use it to pop drivers into wims but I haven;t done updates although it claims to work 1
andyturpie Posted November 12, 2015 Author Posted November 12, 2015 NTlite might be able to do that. I use it to pop drivers into wims but I haven;t done updates although it claims to work Just had a look at this, might do the trick - I used Nlite for slipstreaming XP/service packs and drivers ages ago, but it never had WIM support back then. Also another Brucey bonus is that I can add some stubborn drivers into the WIM IE Intel VGA which I have to get packaged up as an installer on the network - a right ballache to do. Thanks for responding!
Sagima Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 Just had a look at this, might do the trick - I used Nlite for slipstreaming XP/service packs and drivers ages ago, but it never had WIM support back then. Also another Brucey bonus is that I can add some stubborn drivers into the WIM IE Intel VGA which I have to get packaged up as an installer on the network - a right ballache to do. Thanks for responding! It was intel vga drivers that first got me to seek it out as well 1
andyturpie Posted November 13, 2015 Author Posted November 13, 2015 It was intel vga drivers that first got me to seek it out as well And did you find slipstreaming them worked?
SHimmer45 Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 can you not update the image and then recapture it using dism?
Sagima Posted November 13, 2015 Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) Mostly must do - I haven't noticed them not being installed for a while. Not having them used to mean airserver wouldn't work or I wouldn't have bothered with it. That's all I used it for to being with. Did a whole bunch of drivers into a windows 10 wim last month. Didn't need to install anything once I put it on the surface 3 I use sccm for most things but getting it to put the vga drivers in without explicitly calling the driver.exe seemed strangely challenging Edited November 13, 2015 by Sagima
CraigM Posted November 27, 2015 Posted November 27, 2015 DISM is long winded, but I find myself trusting the MS tools more than I would any 3rd party pieces of software. The only frustration with using DISM sometimes is that there are some updates that can't be injected offline, or need to be injected in a specific order. Intel VGA drivers for me never survived being imaged up, even if I don't have SYSPREP do a hardware generalisation pass. I've since stopped imaging computers up and instead build from scratch.
Oaktech Posted November 27, 2015 Posted November 27, 2015 I've always just built a machine using the old image, done the 100+ windows updates, java and flash, sysprepped it again and recaptured it to WDS. Deprecated the old image and eventually deleted it. Drivers I add to WDS driver packs to install with a WMI filter.
snagrat Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 I use DISMGUI to do it. Still DISM but with a GUI
free780 Posted November 28, 2015 Posted November 28, 2015 If you put the work in you can create a powershell script that creates a VM and kicks off an automated build and capture. Its possible with MDT provided you don't have any nasty software that needs to be in the image that requires manual steps.
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