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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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How do I add files to a Vista or Win7 install.wim file?

I'm trying to add files to an install.wim file so that they will show up on the system after the OS has been deployed. I have tried the following steps: Mount the image with "imagex /mountrw..." Copy the files I need to the Windows directory of the…
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Install applications in .wim offline

We're just switching our images over from good old ghost .GHO's to .WIM format. One of the reasons is that we have heard that software updates could be modified/installed in .WIM's offline. For example, right now if we wanted to move from Adobe…
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Best imaging practices (specifically sysprep to a .wim & network deployment)?

Note: As you may have seen in my other question regarding the data integrity of a .wim, I know this is a very "rigged" method of doing things. I've been the one heading up that whole area for our department, but given how fast we've been needing…
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DISM inject drivers into WIM gives error 2

I have just installed a reference windows 7 x64 machine, sysprep-ed it, went into WinPE mode and captured boot.wim image using ImageX. I then moved the boot.wim to my local PC under c:\wim, and try to inject drivers into it, before I deploy the new…
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Delete a windows service from offline wim?

I have WIM files in Windows Deployment Services with various images for computers. Unfortunately, I'm not using MDT or system center or anything automated to create these images - just installed on a computer, customized, syspreped and captured an…
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SCCM 2007 R2 missing boot.wim files from OSD\Boot folder

I have just installed SCCM 2007 R2 and when I went to deploy an OS i found that there is a problem with the boot.wim...There isnt one in the osd\ folder on the SCCM server. I then tried to use other WIM files and they all failed with "Error: Errors …
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WinPE/Wim imaging - Boot issue after imaging, require reboot after to fix MBR

I've done lots of googling around until I found an article that did help me fix my issue to some extent... here: Cannot reboot after applying WIM file I've created a 64 bit WinPE image stick using the Microsoft tutorials for mostly Window 10. I have…
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install application on a mounted WIM file

Every night my build server creates an updated WIM image by mounting, updating my application files and unmounting. then I have an updated nightly wim file. I want to take this nightly image and automatically install 2 applications on it and then…
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Windows Server 2019: Add language pack with DISM to .WIM

I have an Windows Server 2019 image with 4 editions: Windows Server 2019 Standard Windows Server 2019 Standard Core Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core I want to add a language pack to this image and to all 4…
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Automatically deploy Win10 using iPXE

I have iPXE working to boot the Win10 installer. Problem is: after it boots to the installer, I have to do the following: net use s: \\192.168.250.74\pxe\boot\Win10lts bar /user:foo s:\sources\setup.exe Then, the installer starts over, and I can…
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Applying OOBE to captured WIM

Im trying to deploy an OOBE image using MDT Sysprep Task sequence. I have no problem capturing the "golden" image (with all necessary programs and what-not) but the main point of the confusion is how to deploy the capture in OOBE? When I make a new…
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WDS capture creates 2 .WIMs

When I capture an image, it successfully captures and deploys with out an issue. But the capture creates 2 entries on the server and 2 .wim files. One is always large(around 20-30 GB) and the other is very small(5-10 MB). They are named the same,…
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Adding drivers to a non bootable drive

I have a server 2008 installation with a faulty motherboard. I have changed the motherboard and Windows blue screens on boot up. It is caused by the SATA drivers. I'm trying to find a method of installing the drivers manually without booting…
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Trusted Sites in Captured Wim (Server 08 R2)

I have an inherited Windows Server 08 R2 .wim image used in MDT 2013. This image appears to contain custom Trusted Sites that are included after deployment, and stay there with every sysprep/capture when the image is updated. The background to this…
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WDS deployment installs fine, consistently fails to setup: how do I diagnose what went wrong?

I'm using WDS with a reference image and boot file from a Win 7 iso. I get it to successful install sans answer file however when it reboots and tries to set up services, devices, etc. it gives an error popup that claims I'll need to restart to…
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