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Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) is a command-line tool that can be used to service a Windows image or to prepare a Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) image. DISM can be used to service a Windows image (.wim) or a virtual hard disk (.vhd or .vhdx).

Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe) is a command-line tool that can be used to service a Windows image or to prepare a Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) image. DISM can be used to service a Windows image (.wim) or a virtual hard disk (.vhd or .vhdx).

DISM replaces the ImageX tool which was deprecated in Windows 8. DISM also replaces Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe), PEimg, and Intlcfg that were included in previous deployment toolkits. DISM also adds new functionality to improve the experience for offline servicing.

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What is the MSMQ-Container feature and why doesn't it exist on Windows 2008 R2

I'm trying to script the setup of a web-server role for our application using PowerShell & dism. The application requires the following features for MSMQ support (excluding IIS features for brevity): * MSMQ-Container * MSMQ-Server *…
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Install "Media Feature Pack" on Windows 2009 (20H2) - OFFLINE

I am trying to figure out if it's possible to install the Windows Media Feature Pack on a Windows 10 N computer, build 20H2 whilst being offline. For versions of Windows 1903 and below you could download the Media Feature Pack as an .msu file and…
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Issue with slipstreaming updates on Windows Server 2016

So I've been trying to slipstream updates on my Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition (1607), as I often deploy test servers and wanted to have an ISO with the updates baked-in to accelerate the process. Pretty much every guide I can get my hands…
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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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Cannot reboot after applying WIM file

I've built a developer image and am deploying it to workstations. It's a sysprepped image but I'm facing one issue at the end that I'm hoping someone can help me resolve which is where the machine is not bootable. Because this is for a relatively…
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Windows PE3.0 does not detect SSD -- Driver Injection

I’m having an issue with getting Windows PE 3.0 to recognize hard drive. At least I think this is the problem. I’m attempting to boot a Dell Latitude E7470 Solid State Drive, Windows 7 64-bit machine from a WINPE3.0 USB thumb drive. Initially,…
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Server 2012 - Component stores is corrupt

I upgraded a Windows Server from 2008R2 to 2012 and now it has various services failing to start - eg winrm, iis. I know I should tell it to rebuild but the server doesn't actually use any of these services. In the future they might so is there a…
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Why is my Server 2012 R2 DISM failing to repair corruption

Can anyone lend me some assistance in repairing my server 2012 R2 image? I have a 2012 R2 VM, and have attached the install DVD we used from our datastore. I am then running the command: dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth…
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Why does DISM say the Package is not applicable to this Image?

I'm already pretty far down an uncomfortable rabbit hole, chasing solutions to flash a WDS discover image to a bootable USB drive. I was following this tutorial which describes how to use the Windows ADK and the DISM utility to create a bootable USB…
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Need to run a custom command during Windows 7 Setup between Phase 3 and 5

How can I run a cmd script during windows setup somewhere between the beginning of phase 3 and the beginning of phase 5? I need to copy hardware dependent files from the USB drive to the C: drive before the hardware detection kicks in. I use wmic,…
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How to stop DISM resetting activation?

I have a lab of virtual (Windows 7 Ultimate) machines and want to create a Windows image using MDT 2013 / DISM. When I use the DISM capture-image on the reference machine and DISM apply-image on the 'new' virtual machine all works fine, except that…
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How do I create a fully patched installation of Windows 2008 to use during upgrades from Windows 2003?

I need to upgrade some VMs due to the EOL of 2003. Many VMs can just be replaced with current version, but some are so old that it is easier to just try an upgrade and fallback if it doesn't work. There are two groups: Windows 2003SP2/R2 (32-bit)…
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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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How to fix very long logon times on Windows Server 2016?

I recently have very long login times on a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter VM. The boot is super fast, but after I type in credentials, it takes about 60 min until I get to the desktop. The login screen keeps "Applying User Settings" in the…
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