Apply windows cumulative updates to windows 10 iot core

Question

I am trying to build a production Windows 10 IoT Core FFU image using the Windows 10 IoT Addons SDK. The windows version is 1809 (build 17763). At the initial build time, the comm ports do not work from within a Azure IoT Edge container, but do once the current Windows updates are applied.

I would like to either modify our FFU generation process to apply a newer enough cumulative updates and/or write an oemcustomization.cmd script to install a .MSU file packaged into the image.

I see there is no DISM and/or WUSA available, so all the web searches leading me down those paths have hit a dead end.

Answer 1

Yes, there is no DISM or WUSA available for Updating Windows IoT Core. Starting with 1809, the device will by default scan for OS updates. For older releases prior to version 1809, device can be set to receive OS updates only directly from Microsoft by using IOT_GENERIC_POP feature in the OEMInput XML. IOT_GENERIC_POP is deprecated in Windows 10, version 1809. There are several ways to manage the updates.

• Using Update APIs(Windows.System.Update)
• Using Device Management
• Using Azure IoT Device Management

More details, please see this document.