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Do you know which thing removed would cause the VSS writers to go missing?

I have this working really good and small however I tried to clone it with VMware converter for a project and it is missing all of the Microsoft VSS writers. If you do a vssadmin list writers, I think it needs the following writer. What would be the easiest way to add this back into my image...

Thanks for all of the help. I think found it. I removed one of the component for volume shadow copy. I was trying to add it back in, but you can't really do that. I started over with a new image and then applied the xml but this time didn't take off volume shadow and a couple of other things.

Just did a fresh load of the untouched LTSB and it had all of the VSS components in there. So I must have stripped it out somewhere in NTLite.

I wonder if it is not included in LTSB??

I looked in Windows\system32 and the only vss files I have are vsstrace.dll.mui, vssapi.dll, vsstrace.dll. On my personal Windows 10 machine I have 13 files. The big ones that I think I need that are missing are vssadmin.exe and vssvc.exe. Any idea what portion of the NTLite would have...

I am pretty happy with mine, only thing it doesn't do is the VSS thing. Everything else works. But would love your critique on mine.

Here is my XML file.

It is there and it is checked...hmmmm...

I just checked and the Volume Shadow copy services is not listed under services. So I must have removed the components, but I can't figure out how to add them back in.

I am just wondering if I removed all of the VSS components when I was stripping the image down using NTLite.

I am using VMware converter and converting from a "physical machine" to a virtual machine while it is running so it uses the VSS to do to take that initial snapshot.

I have my Windows 10 x64 LTSB image almost perfect. I have a couple of things I just can't seem to find. I have searched the forums, but couldn't really find the answers I needed. 1. I need to have the VSS service installed and working so that I can take VMWare snapshots while the VM is...