April 14, 2014  

Offline Servicing DISM/WIM – SCCM PXE Deployment

Recently while testing an System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 PXE Deployment on a new HP Elitebook 840 or 850, I received the following error:
“Windows could not configure one or more system components.  To install Windows, restart the computer and then restart the installation.”
The reason for this is that the new hardware requires a later version of the Kernel Mode Driver Framework than is included with the Windows 7 install media.  The easiest fix for that is to download a copy of the updated Framework: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494168.  From there we can perform an offline servicing of the WIM image using the DISM command.

Dism /Get-WIMInfo /WimFile:D:\Software\OSImages\Windows_7_Ent_SP1_X64-KMDF1.11\Win7x64entSP1.wim
wim1
Dism /Mount-WIM /WimFile:D:\Software\OSImages\Windows_7_Ent_SP1_X64-KMDF1.11\Win7x64entSP1.wim /index:1 /MountDir:D:\Temp\offline
wim2
Dism /image:D:\Temp\offline /Add-Package /PackagePath:D:\Software\Patches\kmdf-1.11-Win-6.1-x64\Windows6.1-KB2685811-x64.cab
wim3
Finally: Dism /Unmount-WIM /MountDir:D:\Temp\offline /Commit.  Update your distribution points with updated WIM and re-run deployment to resolve.

About AJ McKean

Based in sunny Tauranga, New Zealand, AJ McKean is a Senior Systems Engineer in Mt Maunganui. With over 15 years of professional IT experience working in both New Zealand and the United States, he holds several certifications including MCSE(2000-2003), MCITP:Enterprise(2008), MCSA(2012), VMware VCP-DCV5.5, CompTIA A+ & is an HP Storage Architect. He is passionate about all things IT, especially virtualization, automation & cloud technologies.

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