VDISM – Easy WIM Servicing and Control

So…although you’re a geek and you really like to create your own scripts for managing your WIM files, sometimes you feel that a GUI app would be just great and it would really be a time saver.

Some of you may already know a tool called GImageX but from my experience I think this one its superior.

VDISM, available throungh SourceForge website, it’s a fenomenal tool with a very simple interface that gives you access through a graphical interface to all things you need for servicing WIM files.
It’s really really easy to use and so intuitive that you will probably will not use command-line anymore.

Features:

• Driver Servicing
• Package Servicing
• Unattend Servicing
• Windows Edition Servicing
• Appx Servicing
• Application Servicing
• WIM Boot Entry Servicing
• Append Image Servicing
• Apply Image Servicing
• Capture Image Servicing
• Delete Image Servicing
• Export Image Servicing
• Image Info Servicing
• List Image Servicing
• Mount Image Servicing
• Split Image Servicing
• International Servicing
• Provisioning Package Servicing
• Default Associations

Go ahead and try this great tool: SourceForge – VDISM

Windows Deployment - Back to Basics - DISM - Drivers Management

Here's a post just to review some basic DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool) commands that are always useful when managing your base image:

Injecting drivers to boot.wim

DISM.exe /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\Mount\boot.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\Mount\BootWIM

DISM.exe /Image:C:\Mount\BootWIM /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\Mount\Drivers /recurse

DISM.exe /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\Mount\BootWIM /Commit

Viewing drivers on wim file

DISM.exe /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\Mount\boot.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:C:\Mount\BootWIM

DISM.exe /image:C:\Mount\BootWim /Get-Drivers