Although there are various methods for creating custom Windows deployment images, the process has gained a reputation for being somewhat tedious and convoluted. That being the case, I wanted to take ...

Comparing laptops for your remote workers is critical in this work-from-home era, especially if the laptops you’re considering contain a CPU from a different manufacturer than the ones already in your ...

WDS can be set up via the traditional GUI, but what if you're in an enterprise and have a lot of WDS servers to set up? In that case, PowerShell is a great way to automate the process. Windows ...

On Windows 11 (and 10), DISMTools is a free, non-Microsoft open-source graphical user interface (GUI) designed to enhance and ...

If you receive a message Windows deployment services encountered an error 0xc0000023 when deploying an ISO image, this post will help you resolve the issue. However ...

The platform that drives Windows Update, UUP enables client devices to find, download, install, and roll back Windows updates. Here’s how it works and how to use the UUP Dump website to create custom ...

Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool built into Windows 10 that allows network administrators to prepare, modify, and repair system images, including Windows ...

Windows’ built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command, a.k.a. dism.exe, is something of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to working on Windows OS images. Among its many ...

Fully compatible with Windows 11/10, DISM++ can be considered as an extended version of DISM utility with a GUI and other features like System Repair, Startup Management, Driver & Feature Management ...

We currently use WDS for new Windows image deployment (and server rebuilds), targeting bare metal (mostly UCS) and HyperV (no SCVMM). If I'm building multiple servers, it can be a little annoying, we ...

In the first installment in this series, I showed you how to install the software that is required for creating a custom Windows deployment image, as well as how to ...