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Altiris DS .WIM File Creation Also Suited for WDS 

Jan 12, 2012 12:47 PM

Once in a while I have customers who also have the WDS product on different sub divisions.
With that the .wim files created with Altiris are not accepted cause there is some information missing in the header of the .wim file

For my purpose Windows 7 capture I proceed as following:

Prereqs:

Working Windows PE boot from your DS (i use the modified 3.1 version)
a mapped drive within that PE boot, in my case Y: to \\DSSERVER\Express

Create a Run script job
Tell the job to run in Windows and in the Preboot PE Environment

<copy text below,exclude this line>
REM creating WIM image

 

Y:\WAIK\Tools\x86\imagex.exe /capture D: Y:\images\WIM\install.wim "Windows 7 ENTERPRISE" "Windows 7 ENTERPRISE" /compress maximum /flags "Enterprise"
<end copy text above,exclude this line>

As you can see i capture the D:\ Drive wich is actualy the C:\ Drive when you boot the machine, this is because i have the 100MB or so reserved sytem partition used for bitlocker etc. wich come standard if you install Windows 7 from DVD.
 
The "Windows VERSION" "Windows VERSION" /flags "VERSION" is needed for WDS/SCCM to accept your image.
 
Tested this procedure with 7 Enterprise 32 and 64 and 2008 Server Enterprise R2 (wich only comes in 64 bit)

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