Duplicating boot images

Question

_{Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9:35 AM}

Hi all,

I have an existing boot image with 10 drivers, I want to add a prestart command and some additional files in the .wim by way of including some files from a package. I don't want to edit my live boot image as this will stop engineers being able to deploy machines while the boot image duplicates.

There does not appear to be a way to duplicate the boot image from the GUI.

If I create a new boot image and use the Image Path from the original wim it will not include the drivers, if I use the larger .wim file from the Image Path then it will include the drivers but will not list them on the Drivers tab in the boot image.

Is there any way to create a duplicate of a boot image that shows the drivers without manually configuring every setting and adding each driver. This seems overly laborious. In previous SCCM installations at other companies I could schedule some down time to duplicate the boot image as we had a much smaller geographic footprint, but here we have 27 offices globally and are in the middle of a rollout.

How do other people do it - do they suck up the time to add all the drivers, or do they accept that the drivers can't be seen in the Drivers tab? Or do they just schedule downtime for replication? Or is there some trick that I don't know of?

Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Perhaps this could be a new feature added in to the rolling releases now?

Regards,

Michael

All replies (2)

_{Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:46 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

    Firstly, add a new original boot image to your console, then you could use the powershell script described in this blog to copy the drivers from your existing boot image to the new boot image. Actually, the script will find out the 10 drivers in your driver source, add them to your new boot image and update DP for you automatically. After you complete this, you will find the 10 drivers list in the "Drivers" tab of your new boot image. 

    http://www.snowland.se/2015/04/22/copy-drivers-from-one-boot-image-to-another/

Best regards,

Jimmy

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_{Thursday, July 28, 2016 1:55 AM}

Adding drivers to a boot image is pretty trivial. I think you are over-complicating things. Mark all of the drivers you want in your boot image using a custom category, like "WinPE10-Drivers". Then, you can easily multi-select these (by searching for the category), right click and add to the new boot image. The rest of the configurations should take you all of what 1 minutes to configure?

Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys