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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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UltraVNC intigration with MDT

I'm trying to get UltraVNC integrated with WinPE to allow remote control over deployments in MDT 2012. These are the steps I've taken so far. Extracted winvnc.exe, vnchooks.dll to a directory that will place them into %SystemRoot%\System32 on…
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I need to run a program after the Windows Vista Installer Completes. (Windows AIK)

How can I run a program after the Windows Installer? I know how to mount and commit .wim files. This must be done using the Windows Automated Installation Kit. Is there a default registry hive where I can create a entry under…
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dism unmount with commit on offline image and changes are still in pending status when remounted

Using dism to disable features in a offline Windows 2008 R2 wim image, executing cmd dism commands below: Before any changes: ServerCore-WOW64 | Enabled then feature is set to diabled: ServerCore-WOW64 …
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Servicing a WIM image with the recently released SP1 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2

I normally hang out over on SO but wanted to ask this question in a more appropriate forum. I have, for the sheer fun of learning how to do (as I'm sick of GHOST and dd images) set up WDS and captured a reference WIM file. One of the things that I…
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Custom WIM image to be deployed through SCCM 2007 r2

I have captured a WIM file using imagex. It is windows 7 with a few apps that wouldnt install properly. I now want to deploy this through SCCM but for some reason it keeps failing. When it loads the WinPE it reboots shortly afterward. The last error…
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Is it possible to create a wim from a set of specific folder and not the whol partition?

I'm trying to find out whether it's possible (or not) to create a wim file from a set of specific folder (C:\windows,C:\somethingelse,etc), and I was wonder if you guy could help me out ? Thanks in advance.
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Changes made to install.wim file is not in effect

I am using the DISM command to mount the install.wim and adding few folders and file to the root folder c:\ and them committed the image file. then creating a bootable ISO with the modified the WIM file. but the folders and file I added to the image…
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Can't delete windows.old folder from inside .wim file

OK, so, some dumbass created this image without cleaning up the C drive first. I have taken this over at a new job, and, the .wim file we have to use for re-imaging is absolutely massive due to it... I mounted the .wim file with DISM, and, managed…
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Duplicate entries in Windows 7 Boot Manager

I have problem when with Boot Manager. When I restore System with using *.wim file after restart I see two identical entries. Booth entries run the same System. How I can remove this ? Of course I know so I can run msconfig->>boot and then remove…
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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit: Missing install.wim for windows 8.1

I'm trying to setup a windows 8.1 deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 but I'm having trouble importing the operating system files. The sources directory in the Windows 8.1 installation disk contains an "install.esd" file, and not an…
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