FFU/README.md

Using Full Flash Update (FFU) files to speed up Windows deployment

What if you could have a Windows image that has:

• The latest Windows cumulative update
• The latest .NET cumulative update
• The latest Windows Defender Platform and Definition Updates
• The latest version of Microsoft Edge
• The latest version of OneDrive (Per-Machine)
• The latest version of Microsoft 365 Apps/Office
• The latest drivers from any of the major OEMs (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft) (yes, the latest, not some out of date enterprise CAB file from years ago)
• Winget support so you can integrate any app available from Winget directly in your image
• ARM64 support for the latest Copilot+ PCs
• The ability to bring your own drivers and apps if necessary
• Custom WinRE support

And the best part: it takes less than two minutes to apply the image, even with all of these updates added to the media. After setting Windows up and going through Autopilot or a provisioning package, total elapsed time ~10 minutes (depending on what Intune or your device management tool is deploying).

The Full-Flash update (FFU) process can automatically download the latest release of Windows 11, the updates mentioned above, and creates a USB drive that can be used to quickly reimage a machine.

Updates

2408.1 has been released! Check out the changes in the Change Log

Getting Started

• Download the latest release
• Extract the FFUDevelopment folder from the ZIP file (recommend to C:\FFUDevelopment)
• Follow the doc: C:\FFUDevelopment\Docs\BuildDeployFFU.docx

YouTube Detailed Walkthrough

The first 15 minutes of the following video includes a quick start demo to get started. Below the video are a list of chapters

Chapters:

00:00 Begin 03:21 Quick Start Prereqs 07:19 Quick Start Demo 14:12 Script Parameters 17:22 Obtaining Windows Media 25:55 Adding Applications 26:59 Adding M365 Apps/Office 29:21 Adding Applications via Winget 34:59 Bring your own Applications 36:01 Customizing InstallAppsAndSysprep.cmd 38:34 Demo - Application Configuration 49:43 Drivers 55:39 Automatically downloading drivers 57:28 Microsoft Surface drivers 58:55 Dell drivers 01:01:45 Lenovo drivers 01:03:16 HP drivers 01:05:25 Bring your own drivers 01:06:24 Demo - Drivers 01:11:55 Multi-model driver support 01:13:21 Device naming 01:18:30 Device enrollment 01:21:43 Autopilot 01:24:57 Provisioning packages 01:26:54 Custom WinRE 01:29:59 Demo - Putting it all together (Deep dive) 01:32:06 Downloading Lenovo 500w drivers 01:33:28 Downloading apps via Winget 01:36:54 Downloading Office, Defender, Edge, OneDrive 01:38:15 Building the Apps.iso 01:39:08 Applying Windows to the VHDX 01:40:16 Downloading and applying cumulative updates 01:41:44 Building the VM 01:48:13 Capturing the FFU 01:53:38 Creating USB drive 01:58:41 Deploying FFU 02:11:48 Troubleshooting 02:14:30 EDU Endpoint Office Hours