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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    For someone with the label "staff member", that is a frustratingly inprecise statement. My reading of the license terms implies that operation of NTlite is licensed per machine that it is installed on. And to my technical understanding NTlite would need to be installed on each machine which...
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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    That's how the whole thread started... When I bought NTlite almost two years ago, it was mostly for the ability to create custom images. I used it a couple of times, noticed that it had this other mode whereby you could essentially create installers for clones of a running system, which was...
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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    Well, I just re-discovered why I was using NTlite as a custom ISO tool, only: licensing! I have over twenty physical systems in my home lab, most of them actually running Linux, but then many of those Linux systems are then running Windows VMs again, sometimes with GPU pass-through for CUDA...
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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    That's a separate long sad story... Evidently if VBS has been enabled at one point or another, VMware workstation starts having issues... I basically got two new laptops at the same time, which I wanted to provision with a clean Windows 11 23H2... And an older one, which needed a fresh install...
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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    That's filling the essential information gap quite well and explains why NTlite is made the way it is: thanks a lot! So I guess I'll have little choice but to adapt... Now I just have to find out how to keep VBS off because it's killing my nested virtualization with VMware Workstation...
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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    Thank you both! I'll try the work-arounds, which are bound to solve my immediate problem. But it doesn't quite answer my question or solve the longer term issue of trying to avoid unwanted components and flags from being inserted on release updates by ensuring that the install/update images...
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    Using a custom NTLite ISO for upgrades, as well as installs

    I messed up. After I had spent quite an effort in building a "perfect" custom image from the Windows 11 23H2 business editions ISO "updated to August 2024" from Microsoft, that resulted in something that didn't work ("cannot transfer start control to target" or similar appearing). Never seen...
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