Update Out of Box (OOB) drivers for Nano Server
For certain system components, there may be a need to update the inbox version of the Nano Server driver to the most up-to-date. This will apply only for physical host deployment.
The following PowerShell command can be used to retrieve a list of all driver versions currently installed on the local system (see Figure 28):
Get-PnpDevice|Select-ObjectName,@{l='DriverVersion';e={(Get-PnpDeviceProperty-InstanceId$_.InstanceId -KeyName'DEVPKEY_Device_DriverVersion').Data}} -Unique
Figure 28. Retrieve a list of all driver versions
To update the Out of Box (OOB) drivers for Nano Server, you need to obtain the right driver version from your favourite hardware vendor first, and then you need to login to Nano Server using PowerShell remote session and use the pnputil.exe
command. You can install the drivers individually or all of them. For example, assuming the driver pack is located at C:\HPE-SPP-10.60
(in this example), you can install all of them with...