Convince me not to use uupdump for my production builds

Discussion in 'Windows 11' started by Tammy_Robot, Dec 17, 2024.

  1. Tammy_Robot

    Tammy_Robot MDL Novice

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    #1 Tammy_Robot, Dec 17, 2024
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    Tell me your experiences. Have you had any bad times using uupdump.net for your production/customer boxes?

    Now I'm not talking about the Canary/Dev/Preview builds -- just the standard LCU retail releases you can find on the MS catalog that is pushed to my grandma's PC.
     
  2. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    #2 Enthousiast, Dec 17, 2024
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    Using UUP dump every time there is a new retail channel update released would take very much time because it needs to run the full UUP>ISO conversion to create the base ISO to be able to update it.

    What i always do is fetch the clean xxxxx.1 ISO from UUP dump (if MSFT didn't provide it as ISO) once, next i use a copy of that clean .1 ISO to update it monthly using W10UI + the updates from the updates overview (there is one for 26100, 226x1, 22000 (no longer getting updates), 1904x (+ 2021 LTSC), 17763 (2019 LTSC) and there is one for 14393 (2016 LTSB). All are updates from Catalog and the OOBE updates from WSUS (i guess).

    This way you don't need to run the full UUP>ISO conversion again and again and again and you have more control over the updates integration.
     
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  3. amajmon

    amajmon MDL Senior Member

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    NO! No problems with any distribution. When you need a new version of Windows, you know uup dump has it.
     
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  4. Tammy_Robot

    Tammy_Robot MDL Novice

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    Give me more of your experiences, people. The more, the merrier. Whether good experiences or bad.
     
  5. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    What more is there to tell? You can use whatever you want.
     
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  6. TairikuOkami

    TairikuOkami MDL Expert

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    UUP dump requires working reliable Windows image to create ISO, it failed me several times because of this, I had to use RTM ISO. Currently DISM is broken on 24H2, so any created ISO would be most likely broken as well.
     

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  7. sonic9

    sonic9 MDL Member

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    #7 sonic9, Dec 19, 2024
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    uupdump 24H2 iso is unable to do inplace-upgrade from Win10 ( pre 24H2 are ok ) where Microsoft iso works.
    I use uupdump only to do clean install where I like have base with build .1
     
  8. m8willm8

    m8willm8 MDL Novice

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    maybe out of topic but how did you make your powershell background like that?
     
  9. TairikuOkami

    TairikuOkami MDL Expert

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    I replaced start's PS shortcut with CMD, not sure if it possible to make the color change with PS, I removed it.
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