Our new tool "Windows Offline Configurator” is now available to download as an evaluation version from our website.

The tool allows you to build images offline on your development machine for

• Windows Embedded Standard 7
• Windows Embedded Standard 8 (CTP)
• Windows Embedded POSReady 7

The tool can be very helpful in the following scenarios:

• You have a slow target device where building take a very long time
• You want to fully customize POSReady 7 prior installation
  You can add and remove feature packages before

DISMUI has received many new features and has been optimized – therefore it made it to Version 2.

DISMUI has been updated to fix some issues when installing Feature Packages in Offline Mode.

For bigger packages there was a need to create a scratch directory. DISMUI 1.4.2.1 is now creating a temporary scratch directory to solve the issue. This directory will be removed afterwards.

Other improvements:

A new version of DISMUI is now available. The new version features enhanced support for POSReady 7.

The following features have been added:

Olivier Bloch from the Microsoft Windows Embedded team created several very informative videos about various scenarios for Windows Embedded Standard 7 devices. He covers topics like why use Windows Embedded Standard 7, how to create a customized Media Center experience and shows how to benefit from features like DLNA.

The videos can be found in his blog on MSDN:

Windows 7 features for Embedded

Microsoft has published a workaround for the case that you use EWF and that WinSAT is included in your image and it consumes too much memory.

The article is about the following scenario:

Elbacom is working together with Coder for Life to provide you the Windows 7 Boot Updater tool that allows you to fully customize your Wi

If you would like to boot the Image Build Wizard of Windows Embedded Standard 7 directly from the network via PXE from a Windows Deployment S

DISMUI was updated to work with the CTP2 of Windows Embedded POSReady 7.

The new Windows Embedded Device Manager 2011 enables you to manage all your embedded devices with a single tool.
This new tool integrates into Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and it not only allows you to deploy and update images – you can differentiate between device types. This way updates can be deployed, e.g. only to Thin Clients but not to kiosks however both device types run Windows Embedded Standard 7.