Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

Patching your reference build

Patch your reference build at regular intervals. The recipe in this chapter that describes building a reference machine stresses the need to have a fully automated process if possible. A fully automated process allows you to quickly run a build and capture to update the reference build. There is another useful feature in CM that may allow you to increase the interval between running a build and capture process called Schedule Updates. This feature allows you to apply Windows updates to an offline image. Before CM12, you could perform these steps manually using DISM commands to inject patches into the .wim image. CM allows you to initiate the steps from the console, and schedule them at a time that is convenient.