Differentiating image refrence alternate

[sta4402]

I made a clone of my gold image, (gold2) and now want the differentiating images to now point to the cloned gold image. Can\how do I do that?

[SmartDeploySupport]

Hello,

A differencing WIM is created during capture, and it creates a smaller file that has a parent-child relationship with whichever original WIM file that you specify at capture time. Our intended purpose for the differencing WIM was to allow customers to distribute a smaller file – perhaps to a branch office with limited internet connectivity – so that they wouldn’t need to distribute a huge, multi-GB WIM file each time they needed to refresh their image. Both pieces of that parent-child pair are still needed at deployment time, so the branch office would presumably either use SmartDeploy boot media to point to a network share containing both files, or they could conceivably put all of the files onto a USB stick. When you launch the Capture Wizard you will get an option to make a differencing image and it will require you to point to the original image as well before you proceed.

Thanks,

SmartDeploy Support

[sta4402]

Hi,

Thanks for the update. Could you please let us know the steps to point my existing differential images to the new base image.

Thanks in advance.