Managing Drivers

The required drivers can be downloaded from vendor websites and extracted to a network source location, similar to the source location for the software distribution and OS images. It is important to categorize the drivers by manufacturer, name, and version to ensure the correct drivers are imported into the console.

When a driver is downloaded, it is often compressed inside an EXE file. The contents of the EXE need to be extracted. When drivers are imported, the INF, SYS, and CAT files are identified by Configuration Manager.

Drivers can be imported by selecting the Drivers container and clicking the Import action. During the import process, the drivers are identified and can be added to a Driver package. The task sequence for ...

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