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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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Jeff Stokes Jeff Stokes
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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

Utilizing model variable to control what drivers are installed


As mentioned earlier, while using a default MDT task sequence, the Inject Drivers task sequence step will search your entire Out-of-Box drivers repository to find a matching driver. If you only have a few hardware models, and all models are from the same manufacturer, then this could very well suit your needs without problem; but let's consider the following scenario.

Let's say you have a Dell model that has a rebranded Broadcom Network Adapter. You also have an HP model that has a rebranded Broadcom Network Adapter of the same chipset. Now, Broadcom, Dell, and HP each have a driver. Based on what we discussed earlier about how PnP finds a matching driver, it would be possible for any of these three drivers to be a match, if both devices reported the same PnP ID, then Windows' driver ranking process would determine which driver is installed based on signed versus unsigned, version number, inbox versus Out-of-Box, and so on. So...

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