Technical Diary 25-Jan-2013

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 6.1.7600.16385 (Win 2008 R2)

Version: 6.2.9200.16384 ( Win 2012)

Description:  DISM enumerates, installs, uninstalls, configures, and updates features and packages in Windows images. 

• to get details of WIM and VHD images
• we can list, disable, enable windows features in the running operating system using DISM /Online

Appliance: Today I used this tool to add features Dot Net Framework2.x and Windows Power-shell in Windows 2008 R2 Core Server. The output is as follows.

C:\Windows\Logs>DISM /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx2-ServerCore

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Enabling feature(s)

[==========================100.0%==========================]

The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\Logs>DISM /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:MicrosoftWindowsPowerS

hell

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Enabling feature(s)

[==========================100.0%==========================]

The operation completed successfully.

Get-Hotfix Cmdlet: Used Get-Hotfix cmdlet to query KB 982293 is installed or not using 

get-hotfix | where {$_.HotfixID -eq "KB982293"}

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