Monday, 23 April 2012

Import SCCM boot image to WDS

Do you have a MDT environment and you still can't install the SCCM PXE Point because it would take over WDS and you wouldn't be able to boot from your MDT server?

If you have this scenario you still need to test your SCCM Task Sequences.

In order to boot from WDS using a SCCM Boot image first Create a Task Sequence Media right clicking Task Sequences and selecting Create Task Sequence Media. Now select Bootable Media and click on Next.



Browse where you want to create your ISO file. Click on Next. Select a boot image and click on Next. Review the summary and click on Next again.



After you got you ISO you need to extract it to a folder using Winzip, Winrar or whatever tool of your preference.
I extract it to C:\SCCM.
Now let's mount the boot.wim and copy some required files there and then commit the changes and unmount it.
Go to a computer where you have the WAIK installed and start the Deployment Tools Command Prompt.



Create a empty folder where you are going to mount the image. I created C:\img

Type in the command prompt:

dism /mount-wim /wimfile:C:\SCCM\sources\boot.wim /index:1 /mountdir:c:\img

Now browse to C:\SCCM\SMS and copy the DATA folder to c:\img\SMS

You can enable the command line support F8, adding EnableDebugShell=True in the tsbootshell.ini in c:\img\SMS\bin\i386

Type in the command prompt:

dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:C:\img /commit

Now import the image C:\SCCM\sources\boot.wim to your WDS server.

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