LKBEN10871: configure individual excludes for ImageX
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 0 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Symptom
The capture process takes long, and the resulting wim file may be to big
Cause
not wanted files are beeing captured in a wim file
Solution
configure individual excludes for ImageX.
create a config file named "wimscript.ini" and fill sections, eg:
[ExclusionList]
Ntfs.log
Hiberfil.sys
Pagefile.sys
"System Volume Information"
RECYCLER
Windows\CSC
[CompressionExclusionList]
*.mp3
*.zip
*.cab
\WINDOWS\inf\*.pnf
copy the file to same location as ImageX.
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.