I have the server with Windows Server 2008 core SP2 and I need to install SQL Server 2012 in it. The problem is that SQL Server requires .NET 4.5 and when I try to install .NET 4.5, the OS gives an error that says “the program is not recognized.” To work around this, I tried … Read more
Using dism to disable features in a offline Windows 2008 R2 wim image, executing cmd dism commands below: Before any changes: ServerCore-WOW64 | Enabled then feature is set to diabled: ServerCore-WOW64 | Disable Pending But when using the exact same commands to mount the wim again the feature is still in state: ServerCore-WOW64 | Disable … Read more
At present we are having some difficulties with one of our Terminal Servers. It is a VM Server 2012 (64bit) What is happening at the moment is that random applications (IE, Chrome, Notepad, Word, Outlook, Excel, Explorer) will start becoming unresponsive (it is not “Not Responding” you are unable to click, move, or close the … Read more
I am running Win 2012 R2 with MDT 2013, WDS & WSUS. trying to auto inject updates from wsus update share into my OS Wim (win 10 tech preview x64) for deployment. using this script $UpdatesPath = “\\192.168.30.204\wsus\WsusContent” $MountPath = “C:\SCRIPTSV2\mounter1” $WimFile = “C:\SCRIPTSV2\TestOS2\Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview x64\sources\install.wim” DISM /Mount-Wim /WimFile:$WimFile /index:1 /Mountdir:$MountPath $UpdateArray … Read more
While creating a slipstreamed Windows ISO, I wanted to ‘un-do’ and start over with a better plan. I attempted to delete the workspace but the workspace had a directory called offline, created by dism, with several GB worth of files owned by System and therefore could not deleted, giving an access is denied error. Some … Read more
I am upgrading about 200 machines in my lab from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and as part of the upgrade, I am also converting the file system on the machines to GPT. I am doing this as an automated process with WinPE images that are loaded from my PXE server. In the image, there … Read more
I have an Windows Server 2019 image with 4 editions: Windows Server 2019 Standard Windows Server 2019 Standard Core Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Core I want to add a language pack to this image and to all 4 editions. I tried to add the german language pack to the image with … Read more
I have 4 identical computers with fresh install of Windows 10 1809 pro x64 french, workgroup, no antivirus, no WSUS. The first were cloned 3 times, i made a sysprep after each clone. I want to install a software (don’t matted which software is) but block at prerequisite check : .Net Framework 2.0 not installed. … Read more
Is there possibility to add custom .exe application to Windows 10 image which will run in autostart when i install image on some computer? Either with DISM or ICD? //EDIT: App is without installer – its just few files + executable Answer Yes, copy the files on the computer, then create a batch file here … Read more
Some of my Windows 2012 servers did an automatic Windows Update this week and won’t boot up now after they automatically rebooted. This is regarding update 2021-KB5006739. I get the following screen after reboot: Repairing Windows doesn’t help. But I do have access to some very basic command prompt. I tried reverting the update via … Read more
