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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

by Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Windows image file format

Windows image files allow for saving data in operating system image files. One .wim file can contain one instance of a regular or Windows PE operating system.

The .wim files contain the structure of saved files and folders from the template machine. To reduce used space, all operating system files are saved in a .wim file only once, so even if one file appears twice in the system, the .wim file will contain only one copy of the actual file.

During installation, files are installed where they are supposed to be on the template machine. Thanks to this deduplication process, the .wim files are much smaller than the actual operating system.

Windows 10 contains a file called install.esd instead of install.wim. ConfigMgr ...
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