MDT doesn’t recognize your WIM file? Well, ImageX didn’t either
From the archive (2010). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.
New post from Michael Niehaus over on his blog.
Here’s a quick snippet:
I’ve talked to a few people that have mentioned that when they import a new operating system into the MDT 2010 Deployment Workbench, it never shows up – it’s in the deployment share, but it never shows up in Workbench. So what happened?
Well, if you are the geeky type, you can watch the import process using the Sysinternals DebugView tool and see any errors (exceptions) that occur during the import process. In this particular case, you’re likely to see an error that says there is no “Build” parameter in the WIM metadata. So what does that mean? First, let’s look at the metadata from a “typical” OS image (generated using “ImageX /info /xml FILENAME.WIM”):……