Another Offline servicing question...

[JacobE]

Hi all,

 

Ok, so I have another question regarding offline servicing.

 

When playing around with injecting updates into the WIM within 2007 using MDT which worked fine, but I found with testing that the build would fail as .NET 4 isn't part of the original WIM. From memory I'm pretty sure the updates would inject but the build would fail applying the WIM due to .NET4 being missing at that stage.

So my question is, is 2012 clever enough to know whether or not the updates will work and cause the TS to fail?

 

I just don't want to schedule the WIM being updated over the weekend to come in on a Monday for the build to potentially fail?

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Jake

[Peter van der Woude]

It doesn't do a prereq test if that's what you mean. It will just start with applying the updates you selected, just until it fails, or succeeds.

 

Remember that offline servicing only works for operating system related updates and not for applications (like .NET).

[kevlar01]

Perhaps you can try to include the .NET FW 4 in your image (because it allways will be needed anyway).

You could try running a build and capture, and include the package installation of .NET FW 4(if you have it, if not, you could create it).

 

Otherwise, you can try to add it using dism.exe

[JacobE]

Perhaps you can try to include the .NET FW 4 in your image (because it allways will be needed anyway).

You could try running a build and capture, and include the package installation of .NET FW 4(if you have it, if not, you could create it).

 

Otherwise, you can try to add it using dism.exe

 

Oh I did play about with this, but I was wondering if it would be required so I could balance my workload, that's all