Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Adding applications to our reference image

Now that we've added patches and drivers, let's add a few applications to our reference image, taking us from a thin image to a hybrid image.

First, we will make a directory structure, as seen in the following image:

Automating image updates

Now, we can just put setup.exe for each of these into the folders and say that we're done. However, you don't want to walk through the installer for each application manually every time we capture a reference image. You want this process to be automated so that when new patches are released, we can just fire off a task sequence and let it update the image automatically. ...