System Center Configuration Manager provides a driver catalog that you can use to manage the Windows device drivers in your Configuration Manager environment. You can use the driver catalog to import device drivers into Configuration Manager, to group them in packages, and to distribute those. Recent Posts • • • • • • Categories • (2) • (3) • (8) • (8) • (45) • (22) • (8) • (21) • (20) • (5) • (104) • (5) • (60) • (2) • (4) • (68) Archives • (3) • (1) • (2) • (1) • (1) • (2) • (3) • (5) • (1) • (4) • (1) • (2) • (2) • (1) • (4) • (4) • (3) • (2) • (2) • (4) • (1) • (4) • (1) • (5) • (4) • (6) • (3) • (7) • (5) • (6) • (6) • (1) • (4) • (3) • (5) • (2) • (1) • (3) • (5) • (7) • (5) • (9) • (2) • (5) • (3) • (3) • (1) • (4) • (4) • (2) • (9) • (7) • (8) • (1) • (4) • (5) • (3) • (2) • (3) • (1) • (2) • (4) • (2) • (6) Recent Comments • on • on • Ragh on • on • Turismo CaNica on. Manage drivers in System Center Configuration Manager • • 18 minutes to read • Contributors • • • • In this article Applies to: System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) System Center Configuration Manager provides a driver catalog that you can use to manage the Windows device drivers in your Configuration Manager environment. You can use the driver catalog to import device drivers into Configuration Manager, to group them in packages, and to distribute those packages to distribution points where you can access them when you deploy an operating system. Device drivers can be used when you install the full operating system on the destination computer and when you install Windows PE by using a boot image. Windows device drivers consist of a Setup Information File (INF) file and any additional files that are required to support the device. When an operating system is deployed, Configuration Manager obtains the hardware and platform information for the device from its INF file. Use the following to manage drivers in your Configuration Manager environment. Device Driver Categories When you import device drivers, you can assign the device drivers to a category. Device driver categories help group similarly used device drivers together in the driver catalog. For example, you can assign all network adapter device drivers to a specific category. Then, when you create a task sequence that includes the step, you can specify a specific category of device drivers. Configuration Manager then scans the hardware and selects the applicable drivers from that category to stage on the system for Windows Setup to use. Driver packages You can group similar device drivers in packages to help streamline operating system deployments. For example, you might decide to create a driver package for each computer manufacturer on your network. You can create a driver package while you are importing drivers into the driver catalog directly in the Driver Packages node. After the driver package is created, it must be distributed to distribution points from which Configuration Manager client computers can install the drivers as they are required. Consider the following: • When you create a driver package, the source location of the package must point to an empty network share that is not used by another driver package, and the SMS Provider must have Read and Write permissions to that location. • When you add device drivers to a driver package, Configuration Manager copies the device driver to the driver package source location. You can add only device drivers that have been imported and that are enabled in the driver catalog to a driver package. • To copy a subset of the device drivers from an existing driver package, create a new driver package, add the subset of device drivers to the new package, and then distribute the new package to a distribution point. Use the following sections to create and manage driver packages. Create a driver package Use the following procedure to create a new driver package. Note When you use task sequences to install drivers, create driver packages that contain less than 500 device drivers. Use the following procedure to create a driver package. To create a driver package • In the Configuration Manager console, click Software Library. • In the Software Library workspace, expand Operating Systems, and then click Driver Packages.
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