Deployment and Image Service Management

With DISM you can add and remove features to your running image without the need to reinstall.

Add/Remove Features

DISM allows you to add/remove features online or offline.

Online

Online servicing enables you to add/remove features directly in the running image.
This removes the need to rebuild the image like in Windows XP Embedded / Windows Embedded Standard 2009.

Example:
Adding Internet Explorer to a image

DISM /online /add-package /packagepath: 

DISM /online /add-package /packagepath:"e:\ds\packages\featurespack\x86~winemb-ie-explorer~~~~6.1.7600.16385~1.0"

Offline

Offline servicing enables you to add/remove features event when the image is not booted.
This way you can add/remove features to the images for example from your development machine or from Windows PE.

Example:
Adding Internet Explorer to a image

DISM /image:C:\Image\/add-package /packagepath: 

DISM /image:C:\Image\ /add-package /packagepath:"e:\ds\packages\featurespack\x86~winemb-ie-explorer~~~~6.1.7600.16385~1.0"

Packages

There are more than 100 feature packages available which are located on the setup DVD in the DS\Packages\FeaturesPack folder.
All of these packs can be added or removed by using DISM.