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MrEclipseguy
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Posted - 08/22/2008 :  4:12:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Having trouble figuring out how to take a good XP image that has been captuered to my WDS server, and updating it with the latest patches, and a few programs/permissions.

Currently I have to image a machine up and then logon and apply the changes I need and am good to go.

I'd like to update the image every so often with any changes needed and replace the old image and/or save it as another name with say a date stamp in the name so I know which image is the latest.

Using WDS/sysprep/imagex currently so I'm not familiar with any of the other tools out there.

Anyone have any suggestions?

It does not seem to be as easy as applying the updates and re-syspreping the machine and capturing the new image up under a different name. Or at least I have not had any luck doing that.
Mike

Even though WDS is the spawn of Satan he ain't that Scary!!

RTHJr
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Posted - 08/22/2008 :  6:35:28 PM  Show Profile  Send RTHJr a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Mike,

The newsletter #72 thread is right up your alley.

http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28106

All it would be for you would be to add another line in the script to Copy your old image to a new image of the same name using a Date-Time property OR just use the same image file and have another instance of a WIM using the same Date-Time property as part of the naming convention of the image inside the WIM file. That way the patched images act like incremental files that only hold the changes to the WIM while enjoying the efficiency of the Single Instance Store of the WIM rather than having separate files.

I'm interested in writing a script related to this when I get time to steal away as I have been thinking in terms using pkgmgr in a slipstream fashion like we used to be able to do with Windows XP/2003 and below.
Ralph T. Howarth, Jr.
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MrEclipseguy
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Posted - 08/22/2008 :  8:30:26 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Had not had a chance to look at it yet. Gave a quick glance but it's Friday at 5:30 now and I should go home for the weekend... Thanks for the reply, will check it out in more depth on Monday
Mike

Even though WDS is the spawn of Satan he ain't that Scary!!
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Tray
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Posted - 08/25/2008 :  07:47:41 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ralph:

Package Manager only works on Vista images not XP images. Ralph unfortunately, you would have to deploy the image, add in the updates / patches and then recapture it.

--Tray
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