The new version of Windows Offline Configurator now supports the CTP2 version of Windows Embedded Standard 8. The evaluation version of the tool can be used to install Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP1 & CTP2 [...]

Microsoft published a blog article explaining why XP Embedded and Windows Embedded Standard 2009 cannot have Windows Update. You can read the whole article on the new Approaching Embedded Intelligently blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/archive/2007/04/04/why-can-t-i-use-windows-update-with-xpe.aspx

I have released a new version of DISMUI that enables support for Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP2. It also contains several small changes mostly related to the new CTP.