Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14986 for PC Insider

Kari said:

I thought first it's not good to just outline the idea without testing it first, but OK here we go. I am in such bad shape today that I leave testing for tomorrow.

First, this includes more work than just an ESD to ISO conversion, but it should give you build 14986 ISO (and in the future an ISO for each new build).

Theoretical steps, I repeat that I have not tested this yet but as I really want to have an ISO, I will test it:

• On a technician PC (in my case a Hyper-V virtual machine), clean install Windows 10 (any previous build)
• Opt in to Fast ring and let WU download 14986 upgrade, alternatively copy the entire $WINDOWS.~BT folder from another machine to technician machine (remembering that bit version, language and edition must match!)
• Upgrade, either by clicking Restart now in WU if upgrade was downloaded, or running the setup.exe from $WINDOWS.~BT folder if instead of downloading the upgrade you copied it from another machine
• Capture image (Windows ADK / ICD) to an install.wim file
• Use ADK's Deployment and Imaging tools to create a WinPE (will be used as boot.wim)
• Use ADK's Deployment and Imaging tools to write boot.wim and install.wim

Sounds complicated, is simple, just a bit more work and time required than what we are used to with ESD files.

As I said, this is at the moment just a theory.

Hi Kari,
Could you elaborate on how to do the following:

Capture image (Windows ADK / ICD) to an install.wim file
Use ADK's Deployment and Imaging tools to create a WinPE (will be used as boot.wim)
Use ADK's Deployment and Imaging tools to write boot.wim and install.wim



Francis

Bat 1 said:

Crap. copied wrong post, that's to re-enable UUP.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate]
"SupportsUUP"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Orchestrator]
"EnableUUPScan"=dword:00000000

Worked for me.


Francis


PS I want to try Kari's way as well


F

Awesome. KeePass Securer Desktop login option no longer kills explorer.exe in build 14986.

fjk61011 said:

Hi Kari,
Could you elaborate on how to do the following:

Capture image (Windows ADK / ICD) to an install.wim file
Use ADK's Deployment and Imaging tools to create a WinPE (will be used as boot.wim)
Use ADK's Deployment and Imaging tools to write boot.wim and install.wim to an ISO file

First, please notice the words highlighted in above quote, the words I forgot and are missing from my post.

OK, a quite simplified explanation:

With Windows 10, Microsoft introduced a new deployment tool called Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (Windows ICD). It is part of Windows Assessment and Development Kit (Windows ADK).

Deployment and Imaging Tools are also a part of the ADK. It is a set of tools (commands), a set that when run will add special commands to Command Prompt, or rather you use this command add-on in Command Prompt interface.

Two really important components of Windows install media are boot.wim and install.wim files. To create them and write them to a bootable install media I use Deployment and Imaging Tools. First I need to write a WinPE image on my harddisk:

WinPE is needed to run Windows setup; extremely simplified you could say it's kind of mini operating system that takes care of install media boot and first phase of setup. After first reboot required by setup, WinPE is no longer needed, it giving control to Windows 10.

OK, when I have WinPE files saved on my machine let's say in WinPE folder on drive E:, and I have my Windows installation files stored on same drive in folder SetupFiles, and I want to create Windows ISO on drive X: with name Build14986x64.iso, I give the following command in Deployment and Imaging Tools (see oscdimg command options):

Code:

oscdimg -m -u2 -bE:\WinPE\fwfiles\etfsboot.com E:\SetupFiles X:\Build14986x64.iso

See @DavidY's ICD video in Ten Forums video thread: Solved Windows 10 instructional videos by Ten Forums members - Page 108 - Windows 10 Forums

That's it, I have now a Windows install ISO file. At least in theory; as I said, I've had a long and unpleasant day and I am feeling extremely exhausted and sick, I simply cannot start testing this today.

Kari