Capture Windows Updates in a .wim so that it can be redeployed

Solution 1:

It's definitely possible. I'm not sure why you were unable to capture the updates. Our image creation process is done on virtual machines as WDS / MDT images are hardware independent (drivers injected on the fly etc). Create a hyper-v server and build your base images on that, then use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)'s image capture task sequence and it should capture updates. I think it would be much easier if you integrated MDT with your WDS server. MDT helps automated image building and provides great logging for all that is occurring.

Also if you use MDT, you can add a task sequence to your build task that runs windows updates during the OS install. All automated. If you need help with MDT watch all parts of this guy's youtube series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_BgBXp47k&list=UUW9K5NBLKkxEK0kKMSTbgGQ&index=5&feature=plcp