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GImageX Beta for Windows 7 Beta

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The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.. By using Windows AIK, you can automate Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, configure and modify images using Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management (DISM), create Windows PE images, and migrate user profiles and data with the User State Migration Tool (USMT).

GImageX is a third-party graphical version of the ImageX command-line tool from the Windows AIK.

With the release of the Windows 7 beta and also the beta of the Windows Automated Installation Kit I’ve updated GImageX to work with these new beta versions. I’ve also tidied up parts of the documentation around installation and tweaked the “mount” functionality to provide better feedback during the operation.

Please note that GImageX is a third-party tool so please remember that you won’t be able to ring up Microsoft PSS to get support with it! However, it uses the official Microsoft published WIMGAPI SDK which is a supported way of working with WIM files.

GImageX Capture Tab

GImageX Capture Tab

 

The GImageX beta can be downloaded here and the new beta version of the Windows AIK which it requires can be downloaded here. Please provide feedback, problems, questions, suggestions to the email address listed in the help file contained in the download. As both GImageX and the v2.0 Windows AIK are beta versions please only use these in test environments.

 

Disclaimer: The information on this site is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, confers no rights, and is not supported by the authors or Microsoft Corporation. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified in the Terms of Use .

This post was contributed by Jonathan Bennett a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services, UK.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi I am looking for some guides or training videos for the Windows7 deployment and GUI Imagex, can some one help me ?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Yes, that was a bug fixed in an earlier version - it should be fine now.  Send a bug report to the address in the zip file if not.

  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2009
    With previous version, I had issues when adding to MDT or deploying an image captured with GimageX. Does anyone know if this version works flawlessly when the captured image is added then deployed with MDT  ?

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2009
    I don't get it I followed your instructions to the letter, but exactly how does the created wim file turn into a ico file? the GIamagex doesn't see the wim file. so now what ? thanks Mark

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2010
    cool stuff

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2010
    so is this tool still being supported. will there be an offiial release based on the windows 7 waik? or is it even needed for images created with the imagex in the latest waik?

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2010
    I JUST WANT TO TRY IT IF IT WORKS??

  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2010
    This works.  This works GREAT!!!  Dude, you rawk!  THANKS!!!!