Supported images types You can capture WIM and K-Image from devices with Windows 7 and higher and UEFI image from devices with Window 8 higher. You can also capture DMG images from Mac OS X devices. Image types WIM images • The WIM image file-based format stores information as files, rather than as sectors. You can add multiple files to a WIM image. • WIM images provide faster OS installations. • Multicast WIM image deployments enable you to broadcast one image to multiple devices at the same time to reduce network bandwidth if the routers on your network support multicast. The target devices must have the bandwidth for the image. • UEFI WIM image deployments larger than 4GB must be provisioned from a network resource, because images larger than 4GB cannot be deployed using a USB flash device. • WIM image deployments are hardware independent. K-Images • The K-Image file-based format stores files as sectors, enables easy editing, and uses de-duplication to eliminate the need to rebuild images. • K-Images enable you to edit a base image that changes often without having to re-send the entire image or having to recapture or deploy the image. • K-Image deployments are hardware independent. UEFI images • You can capture WIM UEFI images and UEFI K-Images. • UEFI K-Images larger than 4GB must be provisioned from a network resource, because images larger than 4GB cannot be deployed using a USB flash device. • Target devices must be UEFI-compatible and require creating a UEFI partition using the Create UEFI Partitions pre-installation task.
You can capture WIM and K-Image from devices with Windows 7 and higher and UEFI image from devices with Window 8 higher. You can also capture DMG images from Mac OS X devices.
WIM images
K-Images
UEFI images