Populating the Out-of-Box Drivers node of MDT

The first step will be to visit the OEM Manufacturer's website and download all device drivers for each model machine that we will be deploying to. Note that many OEMs now offer a deployment-specific download or CAB file that has all of the drivers for a particular model compressed into one single CAB file. This benefits you as you will not have to go through the hassle of downloading and extracting each individual driver for each device separately (NIC, video, audio, and so on). Once you have downloaded the necessary drivers, to store them in a folder for each specific model, you will need to extract the drivers within your folder before importing them into MDT.

Next, we want to create a folder structure under the Out-of-Box Drivers node in MDT to organize our drivers. This will not only allow easy manageability of drivers as new drivers are released by the OEM; but if we name the folders to match the model names exactly, we can later also introduce...