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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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If most of your employees work from home, upgrading them to the latest Windows Feature Update will be challenging. The IT staff won’t be physically around those computers to fix the problems. In this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has tagged Windows 10, version 22H2 (aka the Windows 10 2022 Update) for broad deployment, thus making it available to everyone via Windows Update. The announcement comes one month after ...

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 ...