Archive for February 12th, 2008

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More Useful Things You Can Do With ImageX

February 12, 2008

 

James O’Neil has a good post here - an example of how he used ImageX to quickly build and maintain his own vista system image with his typical apps.

Also handy for reference as he shows how to split very large images across multiple CDs using the /split switch.

Posted in Automated Installation, IMAGEX, Microsoft, SYSPREP, Unattended, Vista, Vista SP1, WAIK, Windows, Windows PE, Windows Update | 1 Comment »

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Make Your own Offline Windows Update CD/DVD

February 12, 2008

 

What a handy tool; if you download the app you can select which Microsoft OS/Applications you need patches for and it will download them all via the Windows online catalog to a source directory and then compile a script to auto install them all - it will even generate a .ISO file and handle dependencies and reboots - v.handy (and more efficient) if you need to quickly present it to a bunch of virtual machines with no Internet access or are on a site with slow internet access.

Excellent; now as far as I know Microsoft have no mechanism for doing this other than downloading all the patches manually… even with the Vista RTM images I built last week it had nearly 100Mb of OS patches alone!

Screenshot of the available options in the app - download it here

OS Updates - multi-language too

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Office Suite Updates too

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You can even get all the patches for everything and it will compile it into a DVD .ISO image - I’ll definitely be using this - hopefully you can use the info it downloads to slipstream update a vista .WIM image - will have to try that in a couple of weeks.

(original link from a post on slashdot)

Posted in Dial up killer, Home Network, Home Office, IMAGEX, Microsoft, Office 2007, SYSPREP, Unattended, Vista, WAIK, Windows, Windows Update, Work | 1 Comment »