Identifying the basic information of Windows installation .iso images

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I've 6 different Windows 8.1 64-bit / 32-bit installation .iso images. All of the 6 images are untouched and officially released by Microsoft. How could I identify the basic information of each .iso image? The basic information that I need to know how identify: (Type of image: is RTM, RTL, VL, or OEM), (Release Date), (Image Version), (Update / Rollup Updates included), and (Servicepack version). I've searched for how to do that, but unfortunately none of the methods I found worked for all the information I needed.

Omar

Posted 2015-04-25T05:07:34.730

Reputation: 909

Answers

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Run Dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:"E:\sources\install.wim" to see which SKUs are included in the WIM. Now open the idwbinfo.txt on the DVD/ISO under sources, here you see if it is 32 or 64Bit and if it is a debug (checked) or the normal (retail) version.

magicandre1981

Posted 2015-04-25T05:07:34.730

Reputation: 86 560

I still can't get these attributes: Release Date: ex. 10/17/2013, RTM BUILD: ex. 6.3.9600.16384.WINBLUE_RTM.130821-1623, and ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD: ex. 9600.16404.WINBLUE_GDR.130913-2141.

What I successfully able to get: Type of image (identified from idwbinfo.txt), and Servicepack version – Omar – 2015-04-26T00:11:27.247

the only way to get this is selecting the properties of a file like setup.exe and look at the file information. – magicandre1981 – 2015-04-26T07:23:25.690

I'm now successfully able to get the RTM BUILD via the setup.exe file information. How about the Release Date, ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD? – Omar – 2015-04-27T15:06:21.390

for new ISOs which have rollups, the setup.exe also gets updated. – magicandre1981 – 2015-04-27T17:29:56.723

How could I get the ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD number from the setup.exe? I've tried and I can get the RTM BUILD number only!! – Omar – 2015-05-01T15:49:12.723

check the versioninfo of the setup.exe in the sources folder, not the one from the root dir. – magicandre1981 – 2015-05-01T19:34:59.530

Unfortunately, both the setup.exe files (in the root dir. and the sources folder) have the version of RTM BUILD!! I'm now having only the ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD and the Release Date remaining. – Omar – 2015-05-01T21:01:38.700

I can see in the December ISOs from MSDN this version: 6.3.9600.17483 – magicandre1981 – 2015-05-02T05:31:50.540

The ISO I'm testing is released on October, The RTM BUILD is 6.3.9600.16384 and it confirms what I've got from the ISO. The ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD should be 9600.16404, I think, or something like 9600.16404.WINBLUE_GDR.130913-2141. I need to be able to get the ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD and Release Date from the ISO, not the MSDN. – Omar – 2015-05-02T07:04:46.050

this looks like a selfmade ISO. My way only works for official ISOs. Btw, why do you need those information? – magicandre1981 – 2015-05-02T17:27:57.223

No, what I'm having are official ISOs downloaded from MSDN (and confirms the official hash announced on the MSDN website), but unfortunately they aren't available now on MSDN, I don't know why. What alternative can I use to get the ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD and the Release Date? – Omar – 2015-05-03T00:13:54.387

I have no idea. Download the last ISO from december 2014 which has the November Update included. this is the latest version which Microsoft offers. – magicandre1981 – 2015-05-03T05:04:26.960

The idea is that I want to classify the .ISOs I have, I need to identify all the information I've mentioned for every .ISO I'm having. I still not able to identify ROLLUP UPDATE BUILD and the Release Date as mentioned before. – Omar – 2015-05-08T01:35:57.463