I need to add NIC drivers to a custom boot.wim image. I ran imagex and mounted a copy of boot.wim. Now, in my c:\mount folder I see the boot.wim files. Where do you add the NIC drivers? Do you add them here: C:\Mount\Windows\System32\drivers or another location? mqh7

You use dism.exe to insert drivers into an offline image.If this post was helpful, please click the little "Vote as Helpful" button :) Trevor Sullivan http://trevorsullivan.net

Best practice would be to import the driver into SCCM, and the add it to the boot image from within SCCM, I this way it will be added to the Boot."PackageID".wim every time you update the DP, and not the boot.wim. Even though there is no problem adding the driver to the boot.wim file, you will miss out on the ability to easily determine which drivers you have added to the boot images (you can see this from within the boot image properties), and also the ability to easily add the drive to other boot images.. On top of that you can see the actual name of the driver within the .inf from within SCCM if you import! N.B. Only import Win7 drivers intended for you boot image, not for the OS to be deployed!! Michael Petersen http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/

When you import drives it seems to get very messy very fast. And in our test lab we did import many drivers and then we deleted them. Then, about 2 days later we added a couple of the drivers again and SCCM said "files already exist" No one has been able to tell us where SCCM stores the files when you do a Driver Import either. Creating the driver packages seems far cleaner and easier to manage. mqh7

that why I wrote the NB. But it still makes sense to import only the win7 NIC and storage intended for use with the Boot ImageMichael Petersen http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/

Have a look at this: Driver Servicing Command-Line Options: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799258(WS.10).aspx The driver servicing commands can be used on an offline image to add and remove drivers based on the INF file, and on a running operating system (online) to enumerate drivers. Microsoft Windows Installer or other driver package types (such as .exe files) are not supported. Or (as Michael mentioned also) add drivers directly in your WinPE boot image with SCCM.My ConfigMgr blog: http://henkhoogendoorn.blogspot.com Follow me on Twitter: @henkhoogendoorn