This session will cover information on DISM – Deployment Image Servicing and Management, a tool which is introduced in Windows 7. We will look at what DISM can do, which were the tools that it replaced, the Commands, Architecture, Providers and Options.

1. Managing Your Images with Deployment Image Servicing & Management (DISM) – Windows 7 Vijay Raj

2. About Me Work at Texas Instruments STEP Member for Windows 7 Expertise in Application Setups & Deployment (MVP) Passionate about Technology Evangelism Avid Blogger at http://www.msigeek.com Excited about Cricket and Music Fan of Mark Russinovich, Sachin and Rahman!

3. Session Outline What DISM can do for you Tools that were replaced DISM Commands DISM Architecture DISM Providers DISM Options

4. What DISM Does For You Allows you to service images offline Both .wim and .vhd Gives you more functionality with consistent syntax Replaced 3 tools Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) International Settings Configuration Tool (Intlcfg.exe) Windows PE command-line tool (PEimg.exe)

5. DISM Supports only Vista SP1 and later images Mount / unmount .wims (no capture or apply feature) Add / remove 3rd party device drivers ONLY Add / remove language packs Enable / disable / configure Windows features Add Windows updates (MSU’s) Image Context or NOT…

6. With or Without Image Context… Elevated CMD Without Image Context Dism /? No image specified - your looking at the image that is currently running - called the HOST With Image Context Dism /online /? Don’t try this on WinPE Mounted image Dism /Image:c:ountin7 /?

7. Get Information On An Image In the past we had Imagex Imagex /info <Path to image file> For example: Imagex /info c:imsnstall.wim NOW we can use DISM DISM /Get-WimInfo /wimfile:<Path to image file> Another example: Dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:c:imsnstall.wim Document, document, document!

8. Mounting Images:The whole story… Mount an image for offline servicing Patch Tuesday – adding the new patches Adding / removing drivers Enable / disable windows fetaures Firewall, DISM /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:<Path to image> /index:1 /MountDir:C:ount DISM /Mount-Wim /Wimfile:c:imsnstall.wim /MountDir:C:ount

9. Mounted Images Get mounted wim information Check your status OK – good Needs remount Status – Needs remount Attempt to ReMount-Wim May need to Cleanup-Wim and then Remount-Wim

10. Re-Mounting and Clean-Up Re-Mount a .Wim Dism /Remount-Wim /MountDir:<target_mount_directory> Cleanup a .wim DISM /Cleanup-Wim

11. Mounting Wims demo

12. Creating a .vhd Open elevated command prompt Diskpart create vdisk file=c:7Ultimate.vhd maximum=25000 type=fixed Select vdisk file=c:7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk List disk (find your new disk number) Sel disk # Create part primary Sel part 1

13. Creating a VHD Continued Still in Diskpart Sel part 1 Active Format fs=ntfs quick Assign Detail partition (get the drive letter) Exit Mkdir f:indows Imagex /apply c:imsnstall.wim 4 f:br />Edit BCD to boot this new .vhd

14. To Attach a .VHD Diskpart Select vdisk file=c:ims7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk assign letter=F exit

15. Attaching .VHD Images Diskpart Select vdisk file=c:ims7Ultimate.vhd attach vdisk assign letter=r exit

16. OR Through Disk Management UI Disk Management UI Expand Storage R-click Disk Management Attach VHD Browse to your .vhd file Can attach files in Read Only mode with one click To Detach a .vhd R-click the attached drive Choose Detach VHD

17. Adding Drivers to a VHD Attach .VHD Dism /image:F:/Add-Driver /driver:C:riversydriver.INF Dism /image:R:/Add-Driver /driver:C:rivers /recurse Dism /image:R:/Add-Driver /driver:C:riversydriver.INF /ForceUnsigned

18. How DISM Works SCCM MDT Windows Setup DISM.exe DISM – APIs for Clients APIs for Providers DISM Provider DISM Provider DISM Provider DISM Provider Underlying Technologies

19. DISM and The Image DISM can do different things based on what the operating system is of the image being serviced Providers are internal to the actual image Providers are not the same from one OS to the next Providers can be found in C:indowsystem32ISM

20. DISM Options

21. In Summary… What DISM can do for you Tools that were replaced DISM Commands DISM Architecture DISM Providers DISM Options

22. Call to Actions Complete the Survey and Win TechNet Subsc- http://tinyurl.com/STEP190 Read more articles on http://microsoft.com/springboard You can get in touch with other Setup Deploy MVPs like Rhonda Layfield. Deployment Guidelines and Windows Tips at http://www.msigeek.com

23. question & answer