One PE to Rule Them All?

[richard612]

Today, we have four VistaPE boot images on our Windows Deployment Server:

1. WDS deployment

2. WDS capture

3. WinRE

4. A generic PE environment in which I can run our legacy Ghost-like utility (Rdeploy).

Is there a way that I can create ONE boot image within WDS that can do all of these? I know that WinRE launches RecEnv.exe and that the sources folder is needed. What about the deployment and capture functions? It seems wasteful to have to maintain four boot images of essentially the same environment.

[gadget]

Why don't you just create a menu within one core pe image. My entire operation runs from one PE image via WDS. Menu and data collection is all run inside VB but HTA would probably suit you more.

[richard612]

That's exactly what I'd like to do but I don't know what executables/packages are involved.

[gadget]

I use VB 6 to do all my work. All i need for that is to run vb6.exe at pe startup. Items can be registered individually but I cannot be bothered to go to all the trouble.

I cannot remember the original filename of vb6.exe. it weighs in at under 1mb so if you require it IM me.

[Jazkal]

Another option other than VB or HTA is AutoIt3. I use this for all my scripting and or GUI needs. Plus it has native x64 support if you need to run Vista\Win2k8 server setups from x64 WinPE.