Managing Windows 8 Metro Style Apps with DISM

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:55:52 +0000

As mentioned in my earlier post Windows 8 – What’s new in the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool (DISM) the DISM tool now also contains commands for managing metro style applications. When running dism.exe /online /? we find the following APPX servicing commands.

/Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage - Removes AppX packages from the image. AppX packages will not be installed when new user accounts are created.
/Add-ProvisionedAppxPackage - Adds AppX packages to the image and sets them to install for each new user.

Windows 8 – What’s new in the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool (DISM)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:43:03 +0000

On my journey discovering the new features within Windows 8 I’ve come across a bunch of new options within the Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool aka DISM. When running launching the DISM command we get an overview of all the commands and options. The blue coloured commands and options below are the new ones added compared to Windows 7. At first we see a whole new command group being added called “Generic Imaging Commands. While the Windows 7 DISM command is used to service the current running operating system or WIM images, in Windows 8 the DISM tool has been extended with commands to service VHD type images.

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Managing Windows 8 Metro Style Apps with DISM

Windows 8 – What’s new in the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool (DISM)