There are more possibilityes with imagex + pkgmgr (like it had to be done in the pre vista sp1 time). But dism is faster because it can mout. Where imagex extracts the image, dism mounts it and only really extracts files on the fly when accessed. pkgmgr was used to manage the things inside an image (like adding packages), and imagex to handle the wim files itself. Dism combines then, but lacks the export feature and image verification you had with imagex. Just a sidenote, mostly you'll be fine with just dism + it has an easier syntax.
Open Internet Explorer. Search for ms download center search for the kb files download all msu files on the list for the version you want (x86 in this case) repeat for all kb files that show up on windows update. They are integrating, just not fully. Win 8 KB files have more than one msu file per kb file sometimes.
I integrated all available updated to image & now image size 4.49GB. Which is 1.16 GB more than original ISO(x64). Is that normal? I integrated all coz windows update is very problematic in win 8. only once i got success to install updated manually else one or other keeps on failing.
Doesn't matter because sysprep /generalize clears any hardware-specific information and makes it a generic image. However, using a VM is of course much more convenient (e.g. you can mount the virtual HDD after running sysprep and capture the OS image right from the host OS).
I'm also very interested in integrating updates, audit mode, generalize, etc. I just don't have a lot of time at the moment, so I would be very grateful if one of you could do a little writeup of some of the required steps!
We both are at same stage just one difference i have some time & chance of problem with my steps are more. Only 100 can give 1000% accurate steps. Please sir
I made the same but the wim size is 4.45 GB, don't know how to reduce to a single dvd-r The same image but made with dism, its 3.97 gb aprox, but is larger than a single dvd-r (4,7 gb)
Did you use the /compress command-line argument when capturing the image? Using "/compress:max" (for dism) and "/compress maximum" (for imagex) performs compression to get the image size down.