The ThinkPad P50 comes with intel's i219_LM network card, whose drivers are not included even in the most recent release of Windows 10 (1602).
I tried injecting the drivers I downloaded from Lenovo and from intel and didn't succeed in creating a working boot wim until I injected them into the original Windows 8 boot.wim. That is, the injection and creating of the customized boot.wim succeeded, but I couldn't access the network using that boot.wim, until I injected into the original Windows 8 boot.wim Anyway, I was able to boot using my customized boot.wim and succeeded in capturing an image of the P50 and uploading it to my WDS server. Unfortunately, I was completely unable to deploy the captured image to new P50 machines. It would go through the entire process, showing the nice green check marks, and only at the very end would it throw an error message Lest you think there is a problem in the captured image - there isn't. After failing to deploy from WDS, I booted from USB and deployed the customized install wim using dism and it worked fine. I was also able to deploy this install.wim from WDS into a standard VM on my ESX. And yes, this image is 64-bit, UEFI and GPT My guess, based on a lot of research with no clear cut conclusions, is that in the final pass of checks, Windows decided it didn't like the network drivers and killed the deploy, even though the deploy was almost complete. By using USB, I bypassed using the network drivers and succeeded. So, my questions: 1. Has anyone succeeded in injecting network drivers into a later version of boot.wim than windows 8.0 and succeed in accessing the network? 2. Has anyone succeeded in deploying to a P50 or the newest generation of computers with Intel's newest NICs, over the network from WDS? Kish
