MSMG ToolKit

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Awesome ! For RS2 please. Personally I like how it is (but maybe 7z would be better?).

 

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In MSMG 7.1 and Redstone2 im missing the option to remove "Windows Content Delivery Manager" (Candy Crush, Twitter Aps...).
Is this feature not possible/implemented with Redstone2 ?

 

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No missing this option

 

Ok, and what did you want to say with the Defender app? If I remove Windows Defender won't it be removed?

 

I do not remove features that are basically cornerstones of the OS itself - with regular end-user dism commands - especially when it takes a couple minutes to mount the offline registry hive(s) and add any registry entries you need to completely disable a feature along with its services. For packages that are immersed in the OS itself then yes, the API is used.

I was not going to get into the DISM.API since that may confuse people further, but since you brought it up, some cmdlets do use it - as an example one of my more "exclusive" PShell scripts I use for images on my enterprise server uses PShell to allocate all structures into a "heap." Moreover, the DismMountImage function then maps the entire offline image contents to a supported directory on my deployment server, and then runs the DismOpenSession function which then allows for the removal of packages with a final call to the DismDelete function. Then the changes are committed and the session is closed. Finally the image is unmounted and "shut down."

Sounds complicated but writing C++ scripts to do such basic tasks of removing and adding packages, installing drivers and enabling features is very simple and can be used within a PShell script, too. Especially with PowerShell ISE and Visual Studio.

But this is well beyond the simplicity 99% of automated tools do in retrospect of what they remove - the same packages, apps, etc. to make and OS lighter and less bloated. In that light using the cookie-cutter dism commands suffices fine.

 

i'm trying to integrate the Windows Store app to Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB x64.
i tried many ways but none of them work.
All dependencies are in the Packs\Apps\w10 directory (Microsoft.NET.Native.Framework, Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime & Microsoft.VCLibs)
i applied & saved changes to source, the new install.wim contains the Program Files\WindowsApps directory.
When i install the new iso on a VM, Windows Store appears in the start menu but doesn't work/open and there is no C:\Program Files\WindowsApps dir.

if i install manually the app with its dependencies on a new install, it works.

Anyone tried with succes the integration of the Windows Store app on a LTSB ISO ?

 

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.....I tried here and not works ,just like you... Exactly as I had said before for MSMG here, store does not work if you use the MSMG toolkit to integrate into an offline image, I do not know why ....

 

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Adjust path to your install.esd

Code:

dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:C:\install.esd /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:C:\install.wim /Compress:maximum

 

Iirc Win 7 dism doesn't support ESDs and there are problems running Win 10 ADK files on Win 7 .

 

Ah, I didn't know that. Such are the problems of an out-of-date OS.

 

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Yeah I found out that hard way. I converted the file on my win 10 machine and copied it back over to my win 7 machine.. But I keep getting Error 6 (the handle is invalid) when trying to remove the default apps. Maybe I should do this whole thing on windows 10 instead?

 

Yep, better try on Win 10.