For serveral months I have been successful in "Ghosting over the Network" using the Automation Folder option within the 8.5 Deployment suite. Even though I am running a 85-90% success rate, PXE Booting via a Package Server is still bound to the network latency and the distance between the Server and the Client. So it has suggested to produce a solution where the entire 11Gb Boot.wim file is deployed to the clients Automation Folder - and then from there Send the Ghost command to reimage the machine locally.
With this being said - I have the Boot.wim file from the Automation Folder. I have the Captured Image stored on the Server. But do not have the skills or the tools to merge the two and therefore I'm asking for a bit of hand-holding until I can successfully build a new bootable image and reimage locally.
The help I am looking for is: Which tool is used or has been successfully used to merge together the ghosted image into the boot.wim file. And of course the proper ghost command to execute the reimaging of the client locally. As my new Boot.wim file will be 11GBs in size - sending it ahead of time is an obvious prereq which is OK - but the goal is - having the ability to re-execute the ghost command locally & if all possible re-execute the reimaging command if it fails midstream and needs to be rerun.
I have an older version of DISM available to me - the newer version DISM++ is a corrupted download package from China which is unusable unless someone has a reliable version. I have a deadline unfortunately so I need a mentor to guide me along the way.
Any help and recommendations, suggestions, etc is encouraged
Steve