Slipstreaming for windows pxe

The system package can now be tested to check that it now contains the drivers folders and they are installed correctly. Slipstreaming is the process of including hotfixes and patches within the installation package or system package such that there are no additional tasks that need to be performed to install these packages after the installation has completed.

The slipstreaming of the hotfixes can significantly improve the deployment time for the operating system. Slipstreaming can be used to incorporate patches within an operating system image to speed up the provisioning process, instead of provisioning and running a patching job, the OS is provisioned and the patches are applied during the provision of the OS.

Create a patch audit and remediation job and run against a cleanly provisioned server this system package will be used as the basis for the slipstreamed Operating System. It is important that the patches are deployed in the order that is contained in the BLPackage, to find the order open the bldeploy. This is a two-step process, the first step is to integrate the patch with the media source and the second is to copy across extracted files to the media.

The path to the media source should be the path to where the i and AMD folders are not to those folders. If the patch is integrated successfully then a message will appear to state it has been integrated ok. The deploy folder is just an empty folder used to hold the extracted files, it could contain the following:. Use the GDR version for the Service pack you are slipstreaming. Copy the contents of this folder to the media source as follows:.

Sometimes there are no files to be copied across. Carry out these steps for each patch in turn, due to the possibility of corrupting the media source this could be done for say 25 patches at a time. Copy the install media to the datastore location or create a new location and a new system package and install in to a test VM, check that the patches have been installed in windows by looking at the installed programs include patches option checked.

After the patches have been all included — rerun the patch analysis and remediation to iterate through any patches that need to be re-slipstreamed. The process of slipstreaming Windows x86 is similar to that used for Windows x64, with the exception of the copy stage where the target directory is the i folder and not the amd64 folder.

The entire win2k8 media was copied over to the PXE store. If a 32 bit Operating System is going to be slipstreamed, then the process needs to be carried out on a 32 bit system; for a 64 bit system there is no such architectural limitation. In the sources directory there is the install. This image is about 2. Extract the cab files from the msu files.

We copied the payloads from the BLPackages into a single directory. We are only really interested in the KB cab file and the xml file. Mount the install image from the source referring to the correct index for the version you want to modify. If the command is correctly formatted and a valid file is given then it will show a progress bar when mounting the image.

During the installation of a Windows system, there is a copy process that takes up a significant period of time. This is due to the time it takes to copy a large number files, not the size of the files. To reduce this copy period, a WIM file can be created that contains the image in one single file, as happens in Windows installations.

Start the diskpart utility and use the following commands to verify the disk configuration. Note the drive that you want to image in the output. Copy the imagex file from the WAIK to a temp folder on the network mapped drive. You will need to copy the correct version of the imagex for the architecture.

The ImageX command-line tool is deprecated in Windows 8. Use the DISM command-line tool. The following steps were performed to reduce the size of the WINPE image, to optimise it for the provisioning of windows servers on G7 hardware. The change to the winpe image carried out here prevented the windows setup process from running.

Therefore, the old winpe should be kept, to allow for the recreation of the WIM file. Technology, Support, and News Forum. The trial unregistered copy of ISO Buster works fine. SP2 X64 WindowsServer Step 3. If you have used a hard drive or partition with a different drive letter then that needs to changed accordingly. Select "Enable expert settings" and then make sure you choose "No Emulation and that "Number of loaded sectors" is changed to 4 Go to the Label tab and give it your original XP Pro X64 label.

This is not essential though. Now select New at the bottom of the Nero page and then select the contents of the folder XPX64 into which you intergrated the SP2 X64 service pack, and add all contents to your compilation.