Drivers After the Image

Few, if any, organizations use the exact same desktop and laptop hardware for all their users. Although a desirable goal, it is unrealistic for most organizations because of many factors: the ever-changing model lineup delivered by hardware vendors, the diversity of user requirements, merges and acquisitions, hardware refresh cycles, and so on. This results in a wide range of hardware in your organization and many different drivers. As with software that is not ubiquitous throughout your organization, after deploying the image you must layer on various drivers by using one of the two driver task types, described previously in the “Drivers Category” section of this chapter:

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