Zlaxfish Network

I have been doing a lot of work lately on deployments of Windows 7 (Yes, companies are jumping on board already since they sat on their hands during the Vista years).  Some of the new features of Windows Deployment Services in Server 2008 R2 are really nice, especially the driver package management.  However, it is somewhat limited in flexibility as the drivers can only be applied to deployed images based on a few very inflexible filters.  If there are some drivers that you want to apply directly to an image, you have to resort to the command line.  In my case, I was actually creating a WDS boot CD (which is not as easy as Microsoft’s directions) using the directions here: http://www.davidbolton.com/?p=24 .

The problem comes in with the Windows 7 Automate Installation Kit because some of the commands I was familiar with have been done away with.  This is not to say is is less feature packed, instead the peimg command has been rolled in with a few others under dism.  Here is how you can use dism even more powerfully than peimg.

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