Anyone know what these DISM features do?

Hzdoesnotexist · 15 Apr 2021

Alright - this is something bothering me for a while, since I can't find any documentation about these
Basically, you can use the command dism /online /get-features and you'll get a list of features you can enable/disable - most of these features are documents/give description info when you use the dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:featurehere command. However, there are a few features that don't have any documentation.
Windows-Defender-Default-Definitions, Microsoft-Windows-NetFx3-OC-Package, Microsoft-Windows-NetFx4-US-OC-Package, Microsoft-Windows-Client-EmbeddedExp-Package, Microsoft-Windows-NetFx3-WCF-OC-Package, Microsoft-Windows-NetFx4-WCF-US-OC-Package

There's also SearchEngine-Client-Package which claims to be related to Windows Search, but doesn't seem to affect Windows search at all when disabled.

Anyways, does anyone know what these features do? If so, that'd be great.

Version number: 17763.316 (Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019)

hdmi · 16 Apr 2021

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow...sserver2019-ps

If the feature is not a part of the Windows Foundation package, either a PackageName or PackagePath parameter must be used to specify the parent package of the feature.

Hzdoesnotexist · 16 Apr 2021

hdmi said:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow...sserver2019-ps

Hello, thanks for the reply but I don't quite understand what to do with this information...

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Alright I've tried just about every switch name and package using Get-WindowsOptionalFeature on PowerShell yet it still returns the feature info without any description :/

Paul Black · 16 Apr 2021

Hello @Hzdoesnotexist,
Welcome to TenForums.

Put these into a CMD Prompt and press <Enter> . . .

Code:


DISM /Online /Get-Features /Format:Table
DISM /Online /Get-Features /Format:Table | Find "Enabled"
DISM /Online /Get-Features /Format:Table | Find "Disabled"

The first one will list the Features Sorted by Enabled-Disabled-Name
The second one will list the Features Sorted by Enabled-Name
The third one will list the Features Sorted by Disabled-Name

I hope this helps.

f14tomcat · 16 Apr 2021

For each of Paul's DISM commands, add the ">" redirect of the output to create a text file on your desktop. Change name as appropriate.

DISM /Online /Get-Features /Format:Table | Find "Enabled" > %userprofile%/desktop/enabled.txt

Hzdoesnotexist · 16 Apr 2021

I'm looking for the purpose of the features that I stated in my initial post. Getting the list of features isn't what I want

Paul Black · 16 Apr 2021

f14tomcat said:

For each of Paul's DISM commands, add the ">" redirect of the output to create a text file on your desktop. Change name as appropriate.

DISM /Online /Get-Features /Format:Table | Find "Enabled" > %userprofile%/desktop/enabled.txt

hdmi · 16 Apr 2021

Hzdoesnotexist said:

Hello, thanks for the reply but I don't quite understand what to do with this information...

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Alright I've tried just about every switch name and package using Get-WindowsOptionalFeature on PowerShell yet it still returns the feature info without any description :/

IIRC, the Windows-Defender-Default-Definitions package requires to be left alone even if making the decision to completely disable Windows Defender, but I am not certain about that. Removing this package might cause serious problems because it appears to be intrinsic to the Windows security mechanism in a really sensitive manner. All the other packages you listed excepting maybe the Microsoft-Windows-Client-EmbeddedExp-Package and probably also excepting the last one seem to either belong to or be related to .NET application development. Here's an old discussion thread that gives at least that impression. Visual Studio Feedback

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The part I quoted in my first reply could potentially help to explain why no info is shown by DISM, i.e., the features specified might not be part of the Windows Foundation package. I have no idea what else.