Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Importing patches

Now that we have imported Hyper-V drivers, let's move on to importing patches. In the following example, I am going to include the 2775511 hotfix in my base Windows 7 image (and 2008 R2 when I get around to importing the Server SKUs as well). The 2775511 hotfix is an enterprise hotfix rollup, which is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Downloading a hotfix

First we must acquire the file. This is done by downloading it from Windows Catalog rather than registering and pulling down a hotfix link over e-mail:

In the catalog engine, put the hotfix ID (2775511) into the search bar and click on Search.

Then, you ...