1. A Drivers Saga: The Control Freak Meets the Dynamic Developer
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A Drivers Saga: The Control Freak Meets the Dynamic Developer
Michael Niehaus Johan Arwidmark
Senior Program Manager Chief Technical Architect
Microsoft Corporation Knowledge Factory
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2. NOW!
Q & A
The Tools
Driver Babble

3. General Driver Challenges
Multiple packaging methods
Driver Applications
New versions may drop support for old devices
Badly-formed drivers (INFs)
Two-tier drivers (bus drivers)
There is hope
OEMs starting to pick up…

4. Johan Arwidmark Chief Technical Architect Knowledge Factory
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Finding drivers
Johan Arwidmark
Chief Technical Architect
Knowledge Factory
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5. General Driver Challenges
A constantly changing list of “supported” hardware
Rapidly-changing PC hardware
“Configuration of the day” vendors
Chipsets
Intel vs. AMD
Infrastructure Optimization, standardization
Maybe even less frequent purchases

6. General Driver Solutions What approach to take
Let the tool decide
Explicitly specify
“Chaos”
Throw them all in, let the system and/or Windows figure it out
Simplifies administration, repository management
“Control freak”
Explicitly configure what drivers should be used for each model
Addresses supportability concerns, compatibility issues
Find a happy medium

7. Windows Drivers Boot Image Drivers Operating System Drivers
Primarily Nic & Storage
Windows PE 3.0 uses Windows 7 drivers
Operating System Drivers
All drivers

8. Drivers in MDT 2012 (Lite Touch)
Deployment Share holds driver repository
Import
Folders
Selection profiles
Inject Drivers
Designed to be dynamic
Rules-based process to help filter
DriverGroup, StorageDriverGroup, StorageDriverSysprepGroup
DriverPaths (legacy)

9. MDT 2012 Lite Touch Driver Management
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MDT 2012 Lite Touch Driver Management
Michael Niehaus
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
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10. ConfigMgr 2012 Drivers Driver catalog Driver packages
Used for two purposes:
Driver distribution (replication)
“Forced” driver installation
Driver categories
Used as a filter when automatically detecting needed drivers
Offline injection “just in time”

11. ConfigMgr 2012 Drivers Auto apply drivers Apply driver package
Drivers are matched by PnP ID
Apply driver package
Only the specified package is used
All drivers are injected
Only choice for XP/2003 mass storage drivers

12. Johan Arwidmark Chief Technical Architect Knowledge Factory
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ConfigMgr 2012 drivers
Johan Arwidmark
Chief Technical Architect
Knowledge Factory
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13. Drivers Tips & Tricks Unsigned versus signed drivers
Understanding driver ranking
Troubleshooting Driver Infs
Scratchspace
Drivers as Applications
BlueTooth, QLB, Mobile Broadband, Biometric
Hybrid Scenarios

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