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11

Jul

Deploying printer drivers during SCCM task sequence

Posted by danovich  Published in SMS / SCCM, Windows

I recently had a requirement to pre-populate the Windows 7 Driver Store with some printer drivers so that non-admin users could add printers without the need to install drivers for this particular model. I utilized the PnPUtil command to do this during the SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence which will copy and register the driver in the c:\Windows\System32\DriverStore [...]

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Tags: drivers, inf, pnputil, printer, printers, SCCM, task sequence

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29

Mar

HP driver packages for SCCM

Posted by danovich  Published in SMS / SCCM, Tools

HP have finally released a tool to make it easier to obtain full driver packs for their hardware. In the past we have had to individually download each driver manually from the HP website, this was very painful and time consuming. Hopefully their new tool will eliminate a lot of this pain and time (Dell’s [...]

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Tags: configmgr, driver, drivers, HP, packages, packs, SCCM

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19

Dec

Importing duplicate drivers to SCCM

Posted by danovich  Published in SMS / SCCM

Finally there is a hotfix so we can import duplicate drivers into OSD in SCCM. This means we no longer need to use the text file workaround. More info here and here.    

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Tags: drivers, duplicate, ocd, SCCM

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