


So what does this do? It extracts the first image index from the downloaded ESD file into a temporary folder. So much simpler than that batch file (but it is doing quite a bit less, so I will cut it a little slack - the batch file also does all sorts of things to merge ESD files, remove apps, apply updates, etc., none of which I really need for this). Here’s my quick-and-dirty take on it (see the attached zip file below for the source): (Seriously, who writes batch files like this any more?)īut studying what that batch file does, I think it can be converted to PowerShell fairly easily, at least as long as you have the ADK installed to provide the tools you need (and run this on Windows, of course). The only trick is that last step: What utility can you use to do that conversion? Parallels is using an “esd2iso” command line utility, and the UUPDump site uses one of the nastiest batch files I’ve seen in a long time. For example, these are the en-us images of interest: Pick the ESD file that you want and download it.

That XML file contains a list of all the Windows 11 21H2 ESD files (client/retail and business/VL) in all languages.
