Disable Features in SCCM Task Sequence

Back doing an SOE for a customer and thought I would share how i disable and enable features in a SCCM Task Sequence. This is a good alternative if you do not want to modify the unnatend.xml file.

For a while now DISM.exe has been used to modify features and files in a WIM image. I have put together a simple command that will disable a feature. You can run this within your task sequence as a seperate command or run multple iterations within a batch script.

Here is an example of how to disable all the games in a Task Sequence:

start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:InboxGames /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:"More Games" /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:Solitaire /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:SpiderSolitaire /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:Hearts /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:FreeCell /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:Minesweeper /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:PurblePlace /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:Chess /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:Shanghai /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:"Internet Games" /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:"Internet Checkers" /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:"Internet Backgammon" /Quiet /NoRestart
start "" /w /d "%SystemRoot%\System32" "dism.exe" /online /disable-feature /featurename:"Internet Spades" /Quiet /NoRestart

I have put these commands into a batch file named customisations.bat. I then add the customisations to a package in SCCM.

From there i create a command line step in the Task Sequence to the batch file from the package.