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We use Windows Deployment services and the deployment workbench to build our standard machines with, this obviously speeds up the deployment process but we are finding every 3 months or so we have to create a new image that contains the latest windows update patches, otherwise the fresh machine can take an hour or so to download/install/reboot new patches.

Is it possible to automatically upload the new patches into the images somehow? I could probably packages them up and have a post install process, but this kind of doing what it is now. Ideally I’d like to be able to slipstream any critical/security patches into the image as they become available without having to think about it

Cheers Luke

beakersoft
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  • There's no need to install, update, recapture just for Windows Updates. See my answer in the question linked above. – MDMarra Apr 05 '13 at 17:49

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It is possible to service an offline image using the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool (DISM). DISM is part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit(WAIK) or the new Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (WADK - which replaces WAIK for Windows 8).

This KB article will help you find and download the update packages.

You should always make a copy of the image first, just in case.

Then you mount the image, apply the packages and commit changes:

MD C:\MyDir\Mount
DISM /Mount-Wim /WimFile:E:\images\myimage.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\MyDir\Mount

DISM /image:C:\MyDir\Mount /Add-Package /Packagepath:<file_path>

DISM /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\MyDir\Mount /Commit

If there are a lot of updates, you can use PowerShell and DISM together to script the installs. This TechNet blog post from the ConfigMgrDogs blog will help.

More articles and videos to help with MDT can be found on the Deliver and Deploy Windows 7 page and the Deliver and Deploy Windows 8 page of the Springboard Series on TechNet.

Hope this helps,

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