Apparently the new version of dism (according to windows ADK) now supports the "Remove" feature and "Export" feature, meaning that vlite/7lite style wim reduction is now a standard and supported windows feature. What do y'all think about that ?
It's about time they put those features into dism, i also noticed that it has imagex commands to. I wonder if i can now remove IE8 from my win7 image, and then integrate IE9 9.0.8?
Sorry, on further reading these newer features will only apply to Windows 8 and 2012 Server wim/vhd's. But it does mean that people like us will be able to get jobs creating custom windows 8 images for corporate customers who do not want {insert hated product name} running on their corporate boxes.
Damn you MS, well i'm sure someone will be able to crack or hack the dism files one day, so those features will work on win7. But thanks for letting me know.
i'm a newbie that just found this tool. I've tried to use it but get error 87 dism doesn't recognize the command-line option "mount". all I've done so far is select the .wim file and an empty folder and pressed mount wim
Are you planning to update the tool to work with dism from Windows 8 (which eventually fully replaces imagex) I am interested in all the extra added functionality sebus
@Sebus, I'd probably have to re-write it in a real language as I no longer have the trial version of the sapien powersomething I used to wysiwyg the gui.
Funny you should ask, I was thinking of selling a corporate use version to companies and OEM's. What do you think a good price per seat license should be ?
Can I add multiple drivers for any hardware system (Windows 7) I want or just what I need for one system? What a bout the Windows 7 source, can I use an updated iso image including the latest Microsoft hotfixes or it must be an original disk?
1) Yes, it recurses sub-directories and injects all drivers it finds into the currently mounted image. But you'll need a separate folder for x86 and x64 drivers. Must run the command on each mounted image in cases of AIO style .wim. 2) Yes, of course. It will modify any image that has already been modified. Be kinda useless if it couldn't. Noted: If you are putting drivers into boot.wim, you need to do it on the 2nd image. The first image is recovery console IIRC