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Windows Imaging Format is a file based disk image developed by Microsoft to help deploy operating systems starting from Windows Vista. WIM files feature compression and single instance storage allowing multiple images to reside in one file with little increase in the over all file size.

Windows Imaging Format is a file based disk image developed by Microsoft to help deploy operating systems starting from Windows Vista. WIM files feature compression and single instance storage allowing multiple images to reside in one file with little increase in the over all file size.

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Powershell DISM New-Windows Image: Using a CompressionType gives an error

PS C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\BigHomie> New-WindowsImage -CapturePath K: -ImagePath C:\VHDImports\Win764.wim -name "BigHomies Personal Image" -Verify -CompressionType "Max" Throws the following error: New-WindowsImage : The given…
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Removing Windows 10 Built In Apps from a Windows 10 Image

I've Googled all over the place on how to remove the built in Windows 10 Apps like 3D Builder, Zune, Xbox, etc from a Windows 10 image file. All of the tutorials always point to the same thing - Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage - which is what I'm…
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How do I stop Windows 10 Install from modifying BIOS boot settings?

We're setting up some systems to PXEboot via iPXE and, depending on a master server state, either boot normally or reimage via wimboot and MDT. The systems are configured to boot from the network first. iPXE and wimboot are both running under…
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DISM Can Mount Image but Can't Apply It

I am using DISM to capture a Windows image. I have successfully captured an image from the reference computer after running sysprep and booting from Windows PE. This was done manually using the DISM /Capture-Image command with the verify…
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How do I make certain images available when user selects certain boot image? [WDS]

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation that is used for everything under the sun including Network installation services. I would like to have the server offer certain images based upon the users selection of the boot image. For example: The…
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Why is the WIM Image becoming so large?

I've created a WIM file with filesize of 120MB (based on WinPE3.1). When I add it to the Boot Images section, the presented filesize somehow became 746MB. When I sniff the bandwidth of the network adapter while fetching the image, I see that the…
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Determine WIM's Sysprep State

I'm looking for a/the way to tell if a given WIM was captured from a machine that was sysprep'd with the (equivalent of the) /generalize parameter. Interested in Server 2003 R2 as the source platform (x86 and amd64 architectures). Server 2008…
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How/where to find all Update (msu) packages for Windows 7 (Enterprise)

I've been using Wim2Vhd to create native boot vhd files. (I'm using this to keep several development environments ready, I'm a developer, I know -- I need help ;-) Now the first boot always ends up in several minutes installing all of the windows…
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Live WIM image capture?

Is there a tool that can capture a live Server WIM image? Without having to boot the server into WinPE and use imageX. A free or commercial tool would be OK. Thanks!
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WDS/MDT server - remoteinstall folder on network share or local volume?

I'd like to get this right now. In setting up WDS, I'm getting errors pointing to a mapped network drive and I'm wondering if I should just provision a local volume for this WDS/MDT virtual machine. Is it best practice to use a local volume and not…
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Apply Customized Image after PXE boot

I am pretty new to DISM/WAIK etc. I am trying to implement pxe on my virtual machines (virtualbox), if worked fine later planning to implement in our production environment. I was able to deploy PXELinnux, boot and load new windows 10 OS using the…
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Do Microsoft's imagex/dism have the equivalent of wimlib's --delta-from?

For pushing small changes to an existing wim image, you can significantly reduce network traffic by using the previous wim file as a base wim and a file that contains only the "changes" as the main wim. wimlib is an open source library for playing…
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Adding Windows 2016 to WDS

PS C:\Users\administrator.INTERNAL> dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:F:\sources\install.swm /swmfile:F:\sources\install*.swm /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:C:\Users\administrator.INTERNAL\Desktop\install.wim I can successfully pull the…
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Restoring Windows Image Backup to same drives in different computer

I have a Dell Precision T5400 with two 500 GB hard drives in RAID 1 using the motherboard RAID controller. I ran out of expansion room in the case, so I am moving to a Precision T7500, also with built-in RAID. I have done this before, but never with…
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Error in Office 2010 when deploying as part of .wim?

We're deploying Windows onto PCs with a very simple VM image setup, capture, and deploy using WinPE and imagex to create a single .wim with no network dependencies or capabilities involved in the setup process aside from adding the PC to the domain…
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