Automating windows server 2008 installation in hyper V with powershell

Question

I often set up servers in Hyper V on my laptop (running windows server 2008) to test varoius software.

Is there a way in powershell to build an image in Hyper V and run windows update on that image? Does anyone have a script that they could share?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '13 at 14:10

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You can create a WIM image of the virtualized operating system, and run offline updates against it with DISM.

answered Mar 16 '13 at 14:10

pauska

You can do the same without making a WIM image first. Just run the offline update against the image in the VHD, by mounting the VHD. – Jake Oshins Mar 17 '13 at 05:30

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