We have hundreds of IIS web servers with .Net 3.x and 4.0 installed using using dism.exe on windows 2012r2 (via chef) powershell command dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX4 chef resource windows_feature ‘NetFx4’ do action :install end This only installs up to 4.6.0 gci ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP’ -recurse | gp -name Version,Release -EA 0 | where { … Read more
We are uninstalling most Appx packages for our users upon deployment of Windows 10 machines. We are using something like this two-liner is sufficient to get rid of most UWP apps on the systems: # remove the “provisioning” of packages for new users Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | % { Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackageName $_.PackageName } # delete … Read more
Every night my build server creates an updated WIM image by mounting, updating my application files and unmounting. then I have an updated nightly wim file. I want to take this nightly image and automatically install 2 applications on it and then create another WIM file. is there any option to install application on a … Read more
Over the past few days, an error seems to have developed on my Windows 10 Professional (anniversary update) workstation, whereby when opening the Update section of the Modern Settings app, loads of services instantly crash. NOTE: No updates were installed over the weekend, and I have made no changes within the past week or two. … Read more
I have just installed a reference windows 7 x64 machine, sysprep-ed it, went into WinPE mode and captured boot.wim image using ImageX. I then moved the boot.wim to my local PC under c:\wim, and try to inject drivers into it, before I deploy the new boot.wim to other machines. However I got an error 2: … Read more
I need to upgrade some VMs due to the EOL of 2003. Many VMs can just be replaced with current version, but some are so old that it is easier to just try an upgrade and fallback if it doesn’t work. There are two groups: Windows 2003SP2/R2 (32-bit) to Windows 2008 SP2 (32-bit) Windows 2003Sp2/R2 … Read more
How can I run a cmd script during windows setup somewhere between the beginning of phase 3 and the beginning of phase 5? I need to copy hardware dependent files from the USB drive to the C: drive before the hardware detection kicks in. I use wmic, which runs in WinPE, to determine the hardware. … Read more
I’m already pretty far down an uncomfortable rabbit hole, chasing solutions to flash a WDS discover image to a bootable USB drive. I was following this tutorial which describes how to use the Windows ADK and the DISM utility to create a bootable USB flash drive with the Windows PE boot image reconfigured as a … Read more
I upgraded a Windows Server from 2008R2 to 2012 and now it has various services failing to start – eg winrm, iis. I know I should tell it to rebuild but the server doesn’t actually use any of these services. In the future they might so is there a way to repair the image? When … Read more
I’m having an issue with getting Windows PE 3.0 to recognize hard drive. At least I think this is the problem. I’m attempting to boot a Dell Latitude E7470 Solid State Drive, Windows 7 64-bit machine from a WINPE3.0 USB thumb drive. Initially, before I dug into injecting drivers, I would plug in USB and … Read more
