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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By : Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic
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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By: Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic

Overview of this book

MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification is one of the most sought-after certifications for IT professionals, which includes working with Windows Server and performing administrative tasks around it. This book is aimed at the 70-740 certification and is part of Packt's three-book series on MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification, which covers Exam 70-740, Exam 70-741, and Exam 70-742. This book will cover exam objectives for the 70-740 exam, and starting from installing and configuring Windows Server 2016, Windows Server imaging and deployment to configuring and managing disks and volumes, implementing and configuring server storage and implementing Hyper-V. At the end of each chapter you will be provided test questions to revise your learnings which will boost your confidence in preparing for the actual certifications. By the end of this book, you will learn everything needed to pass the, MCSA Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, certification.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Updating images

After the image has been mounted, the most frequent image servicing tasks are usually updating software and adding device drivers. DISM only supports device drivers that are made up of .inf files. Drivers in executable (.exe) files and Microsoft Windows Installer files (.msi) are not supported. When specified, the /Add-Driver switch needs the location information of the driver's information (.inf) file and adds the driver to the image. The /Recurse switch adds all the drivers that are found in a specified folder. The following command adds all drivers in the c:\drivers folder to the image that's mounted in the c:\mountedimage folder:

DISM.exe /image:c:\mountedimage /Add-Driver /driver:c:\drivers\ /recurse

If you prefer PowerShell, the equivalent command is as follows:

 Add-WindowsDriver -Path c:\mountedimage -Driver c:\drivers -Recurse 
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