Just wondering if there is a setting were MDT can keep the swm files it creates (rather than purge them)? Currently, it creates and deletes them every time I build the media. This process causes a lot of delays.
1) the long process of splitting the wim is repeated every time I build media, even in situations where the source WIM is unchanged. So, for example, I need to add a driver so I tweak the selection profile and rebuild. Without split WIM this would be very quick because all its doing is adding those drivers. With split WIM it's slow because even though the WIM is unchanged, it goes through the long splitting process again.
2) I get hit again when I'm actually writing the media (USB). I typically write the media with Robocopy MIR so I only need to copy what's new. In the case of adding an application or updated drivers, it's usually only a few hundred MB (because robocopy ignores the WIM since the files date is the same). With split WIM, its several GBs because the file date on the SWMs are always newer since MDT rebuilds them every time.