You might find VHD2WIM useful. http://www.windowswiki.info/2009/06/21/a-few-batch-files-for-creating-windows-7-setup-images/ Just build up each of your VM's, then capture them.
At the heart of it, VHD2WIM just mounting a VHD file as another drive in Windows, then using imagex.exe<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722145(WS.10).aspx> to capture it to a WIM file. imagex.exe /capture %DRIVE%: %WIM% "%NAME%" From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 9:18 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Building multi-role Windows 7 installation DVDs Greetings, We've just received the first of our new developer PCs and I'm looking at options for building an image so that I can deploy Windows 7 for different developer roles. I can have found some information on building a single image from the Volume Licence SKU but what I'd like to do is to use the WIM format for creating the following:- Base OS image .Net developer tools on top of base image Database developer tools on top of base image .Net developer tools and Database developer tools on top of base image I understand that there are some Enterprise tools to achieve this but that's overkill for my small team of a dozen developers. I'd still like to be able to tick the components that I want for the install build and just produce the appropriate installer DVDs. Can anyone point me to any articles that I can read that might cover this scenario? -- Regards, noonie
