Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook

Managing drivers

Driver management is often considered one of the more challenging configurations in OS Deployment. CM12 does a great job of simplifying the process. In this recipe we will discuss the process to import drivers as well as different strategies for applying them during a task sequence.

Note

In CM07, you could create a new driver package with a source path as a UNC path with desired drivers in it, and simply send to DPs. By using this method, you didn't actually import the drivers into CM07. This method is unsupported in CM12. All drivers should be imported to CM12, and then added to a driver package.

First, a few terms to ensure everyone is speaking the same language.

• Driver: Also known as "raw driver", This usually is a .inf file accompanied ...