Tag Archives: wim

Clean-up Before Sysprep And Capture To Reduce The WIM File Size

By | February 21, 2018
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Wally Mead (DeploymentBunny) wrote a great script that accommodates his image factory.  It performs several clean up operations before running sysprep.  I run it manually on all of my Virtual Machines prior to running a Sysprep and Capture routine. I’ve seen this script reduce a WIM file by 10GB. Jump to Wally’s github and save… Read More »

MDT does not like WIMs with 2 indexes!

By | July 27, 2016
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I like to capture my thick/hybrid WIM files with SCCM capture ISOs.  The big problem with this is that MDT doesn’t like WIM files with multiple indexes.  The symptom is that MDT appears to import the WIM, but NO OSes are added to the Deployment Workbench.  To fix this you must delete the 1st index… Read More »

“FAILURE ( 5624 ): -2147467259 0x80004005: Run DISM..” error when applying WIM

By | July 16, 2016
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Scenario: Deploying Windows 10 x64 with MDT2013U2 to CF-20A via LAN. Solution: This issue occurred, because an Update of the Media share was initiated at the same time of a deployment and the update was set to split the OS WIM to support UEFI.  Once Media update was complete, the deployment ran with no issue.