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Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

You're reading from   Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Take a deep dive into the world of Windows desktop deployment using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782172499
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Imaging Concepts and Theory FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Environment 3. Creating Reference Images 4. Default User Profile Customization 5. CustomSettings.ini and Task Sequence 6. Drivers 7. Image Deployment 8. USMT – The User State Migration Tool 9. Troubleshooting Deployment Logs 10. Validating the Image 11. Database, UserExit Scripts, and Web Services A. Additional Enterprise Configuration Items

Drivers as applications


Unfortunately, all drivers don't adhere to the usual .inf/.sys format, and in this case, the MDT driver injection method will not apply to these drivers. What I'm referring to is drivers that install via a .exe format and cannot be extracted to the usual .inf/.sys format that we are used to. In this case, we need to treat these drivers as applications. Let's say, for example, I have a trackpad driver for a particular laptop that I need to install and the driver installation program must be installed via a .exe program. I can import a new application into MDT. The command line must be configured to perform a silent install and you should also check the box in the application's Properties to hide the application so that it will not show up during the LiteTouch Deployment wizard. We will add the driver to our Task Sequence as follows:

Now, to ensure that this application/driver only gets installed on the machines that we need to install it on, we can take advantage...

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