Create a Package in SCCM and point to your source folder containing the drivers. (UTF-8 encoding is an option in the Save As screen in Notepad)ĥ. Create a DPInst.xml file with UTF-8 encoding and the text below in the root of the source folder. Copy dpinst.exe to the root of the folderĤ.
(Note: drivers must be in extract INF based format, Setup.exe drivers installation programs will not work)ģ. Dell provided driver packages come in a perfect pre-existing package. Create a source file directory with your drivers in all of their subfolders. Download dpinst.exe as part of the Windows Driver Kit HERE.Ģ. Here is what I did to create driver packages that can be deployed or installed during a task sequence:ġ. Turns out this is a perfect utility for installing or updating drivers on the command line. Inside the kit is a command line utility called DPinst.exe, short for Driver Package Installer. Microsoft has a kit called Windows Driver Kit 8.1 (“WDK 8.1”) designed to help plan and test installing drivers on Windows operating systems. It turns out there is not much out there on this topic but I was eventually able to find an answer that was very easy to implement.
We kicked off the task sequence and it failed on the driver installation step because the machine was not running in WinPE - red flag #2! Having the task sequence reboot into WinPE to install the driver package sounded like a big mess so I turned to the internet for help. To work around this, I figured I would run a task sequence and install the driver package during the course of installing other application updates we were planning to deploy. Then I started running into challenges! First off, you’ll notice that there is no way to “deploy” a driver package in SCCM 2012 - red flag #1. We already had a task sequence with the new version of drivers built-in using SCCM 2012 driver packages so I though this request shouldn’t not be a problem. Microsoft had done a review of the desktop and concluded some updated driver versions would help with performance.
One of the requests was to update drivers on the machines with new drivers from both Dell and Toshiba.
We were working on cleanup items post-deployment of their new Windows 7 desktop when Kraft & Kennedy was asked to put together a number of updates for deployment to the new desktop.
I recently ran into a challenge at a client that I had not dealt with before.