Hello World,

 

Just a tip for those whom might have ran into this.  If you have ever had a corrupt DISM log.

The Answer

Change your log files text encoding to UTF-8

Example of a corrupt log from an improper encoding.  Powershell will by default create files in UCS-2 Little Endian Encoding so this may happen to you.

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Any simple / easy suggestions on how to do that?