But I wanted to create a script that would be dynamic in terms that you’d not have to amend the script every time a new Visual C++ redistributable was released (to be frank, it doesn’t happen very often). There are many great community scripts out there to both download and install these for and during the reference image creation process, using either MDT or ConfigMgr.

Visual C++ Redistributable files are a perfect example of such baseline applications.įrom time to time, Microsoft releases a new Visual C++ version that we want to include in the reference image. Reference images can be thick, thin or “optimal”, but in my experience there are always some sort of application baseline that you end up including in the image. With Windows 10, more and more organizations are looking to deploy the new version and for that you’ll need a reference image. Over the years I’ve used various scripts and wrappers created by community members to improve the reference image creation process, in addition to a bunch of scripts that I’ve made myself. Creating the perfect reference image is a time consuming task and there’s always something to tune.

C++ 2005 x64