Marcius Tribelhorn Premier Field Engineer Microsoft South Africa WCL307

Overview What DISM can do for you Tools that were replaced DISM Commands DISM Architecture DISM Providers DISM Options

What DISM Does For You Allows you to service images offline Both.wim and.vhd Gives you more functionality with consistent syntax Replaced 3 tools Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) International Settings Configuration Tool (Intlcfg.exe) Windows PE command-line tool (PEimg.exe)

DISM Supports only Vista SP1 and later images Mount / unmount.wims (no capture or apply feature) Add / remove 3rd party device drivers ONLY Add / remove language packs Enable / disable / configure Windows features Add Windows updates (MSU’s) Image Context or NOT…

With or Without Image Context… Elevated CMD Without Image Context Dism /? No image specified - your looking at the image that is currently running - called the HOST With Image Context Dism /online /? Don’t try this on WinPE Mounted image Dism /Image:c:\mount\win7 /?

Get Information On An Image In the past we had Imagex Imagex /info For example: Imagex /info c:\wims\install.wim NOW we can use DISM DISM /Get-WimInfo /wimfile: Another example: Dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:c:\wims\install.wim Document, document, document!

Mounting Images: The Whole Story… Mount an image for offline servicing Patch Tuesday – adding the new patches Adding / removing drivers Enable / disable windows fetaures Firewall, DISM /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C: /index:1 /MountDir:C:\mount DISM /Mount-Wim /Wimfile:c:\wims\install.wim /MountDir:C:\Mount

Mounted Images Get mounted wim information Check your status OK – good Needs remount Status – Needs remount Attempt to ReMount-Wim May need to Cleanup-Wim and then Remount-Wim

Re-Mounting and Clean-Up Re-Mount a.Wim Dism /Remount-Wim /MountDir: Cleanup a.wim DISM /Cleanup-Wim

Mounting Wims

Creating a.vhd Open elevated command prompt Diskpart create vdisk file=c:\W7Ultimate.vhd maximum=25000 type=fixed Select vdisk file=c:\W7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk List disk (find your new disk number) Sel disk # Create part primary Sel part 1

Creating a VHD Continued Still in Diskpart Sel part 1 Active Format fs=ntfs quick Assign Detail partition (get the drive letter) Exit Mkdir f:\windows Imagex /apply c:\wims\install.wim 4 f:\ Edit BCD to boot this new.vhd

To Attach a.VHD Diskpart Select vdisk file=c:\wims\W7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk assign letter=F exit

Attaching.VHD Images Diskpart Select vdisk file=c:\wims\W7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk assign letter=r exit

OR Through Disk Management UI Disk Management UI Expand Storage R-click Disk Management Attach VHD Browse to your.vhd file Can attach files in Read Only mode with one click To Detach a.vhd R-click the attached drive Choose Detach VHD

Adding Drivers to a VHD Attach.VHD Dism /image:F:\ /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers\mydriver.INF Dism /image:R:\ /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers /recurse Dism /image:R:\ /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers\mydriver.INF /ForceUnsigned

How DISM Works DISM – APIs for Clients APIs for Providers DISM Provider

DISM and The Image DISM can do different things based on what the operating system is of the image being serviced Providers are internal to the actual image Providers are not the same from one OS to the next Providers can be found in C:\Windows\System32\DISM

Windows 7 & DISM Providers

Server 2008 R2 & DISM

DISM Options /EnglishDisplays output in English /FormatFormats report output /WinDirPath to the Windows Directory /SysDriveDirFinds BootMGR /LogPath & /LogLevelLog path & verbosity /NoRestartNo reboots or reboot prompts /Quiet Only receive error messages – no other output /ScratchDirPath to the scratch directory

DISM Options

In Summary… What DISM can do for you Tools that were replaced DISM Commands DISM Architecture DISM Providers DISM Options

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