Managing your images with Deployment Image Servicing & Management (DISM) – windows 7

Managing Your Images with Deployment Image Servicing & Management (DISM) – Windows 7

Vijay Raj

About Me

Work at Texas InstrumentsSTEP Member for Windows 7Expertise in Application Setups & Deployment (MVP)Passionate about Technology Evangelism Avid Blogger at http://www.msigeek.comExcited about Cricket and MusicFan of Mark Russinovich, Sachin and Rahman!

Session Outline

What DISM can do for youTools that were replacedDISM CommandsDISM ArchitectureDISM ProvidersDISM Options

What DISM Does For You

Allows you to service images offlineBoth .wim and .vhd

Gives you more functionality with consistent syntaxReplaced 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 imagesMount / unmount .wims

(no capture or apply feature)Add / remove 3rd party device drivers ONLYAdd / remove language packsEnable / disable / configure Windows features Add Windows updates (MSU’s)Image Context or NOT…

With or Without Image Context…

Elevated CMDWithout Image Context

Dism /?No image specified - your looking at the image that is currently running - called the HOST

With Image ContextDism /online /?

Don’t try this on WinPEMounted image

Dism /Image:c:\mount\win7 /?

Get Information On An Image

In the past we had ImagexImagex /info <Path to image file>For example:Imagex /info c:\wims\install.wim

NOW we can use DISMDISM /Get-WimInfo /wimfile:<Path to image file>Another example:Dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:c:\wims\install.wim

Document, document, document!

Mounting Images:The whole story…

Mount an image for offline servicingPatch Tuesday – adding the new patchesAdding / removing driversEnable / disable windows fetaures

Firewall,

DISM /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:<Path to image> /index:1 /MountDir:C:\mountDISM /Mount-Wim /Wimfile:c:\wims\install.wim /MountDir:C:\Mount

Mounted Images

Get mounted wim informationCheck your status

OK – goodNeeds remount

Status – Needs remountAttempt to ReMount-WimMay need to Cleanup-Wim and then Remount-Wim

Re-Mounting and Clean-Up

Re-Mount a .WimDism /Remount-Wim /MountDir:<target_mount_directory>

Cleanup a .wimDISM /Cleanup-Wim

Mounting Wims demo

Creating a .vhd

Open elevated command promptDiskpart

create vdisk file=c:\W7Ultimate.vhd maximum=25000 type=fixedSelect vdisk file=c:\W7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk List disk (find your new disk number)Sel disk #Create part primarySel part 1

Creating a VHD Continued

Still in DiskpartSel part 1ActiveFormat fs=ntfs quickAssignDetail partition (get the drive letter)Exit

Mkdir f:\windowsImagex /apply c:\wims\install.wim 4 f:\Edit BCD to boot this new .vhd

To Attach a .VHD

DiskpartSelect vdisk file=c:\wims\W7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk assign letter=F exit

Attaching .VHD Images

DiskpartSelect vdisk file=c:\wims\W7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk assign letter=r exit

OR Through Disk Management UI

Disk Management UIExpand StorageR-click Disk Management

Attach VHDBrowse to your .vhd file

Can attach files in Read Only mode with one clickTo Detach a .vhd

R-click the attached driveChoose Detach VHD

Adding Drivers to a VHD

Attach .VHDDism /image:F:\ /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers\mydriver.INFDism /image:R:\ /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers /recurseDism /image:R:\ /Add-Driver /driver:C:\drivers\mydriver.INF /ForceUnsigned

How DISM WorksMDT

Windows Setup

SCCM DISM.exe

DISM – APIs for Clients

APIs for Providers

Underlying Technologies

DISM Provider DISM ProviderDISM Provider DISM Provider

DISM and The Image

DISM can do different things based on what the operating system is of the image being servicedProviders are internal to the actual imageProviders are not the same from one OS to the nextProviders can be found in C:\Windows\System32\DISM

DISM Options

/English Displays output in English/Format Formats report output/WinDir Path to the Windows Directory/SysDriveDir Finds BootMGR/LogPath & /LogLevel Log path & verbosity /NoRestart No reboots or reboot prompts /Quiet Only receive error messages – no other

output/ScratchDir Path to the scratch directory

In Summary…

What DISM can do for youTools that were replacedDISM CommandsDISM ArchitectureDISM ProvidersDISM Options

Call to Actions

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