Small useful scripts–Changing Driver Package source (PS1)
I have this customer who had to move all driver packages from from one server a another. This of cause meant all the Data Source references had to be change as well. Once al the packages were moved to the new server I ran the following two scripts to change the source. All you need [...]
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Get original Driver for Lenovo biometric fingerprint scanner
I have had all kinds of trouble installing the Biometric fingerprint scanner that comes with most all new Lenovo laptops. Using the Lenovo software works, but I also installs al kinds of stuff that I don’t want, or need for that matter. Instead I choose to go with the original drive for the Hardware , [...]
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Finding the correct storage driver for Win XP using WMIC
I already wrote a post on how to find the correct driver, for a Intel 6 Series storage controller, which is sometimes named different in XP and 7. http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/cant-find-the-intelr-6-series-storage-driver/. In that particular case I picked up the correct driver name by installing Windows 7 on the PC, and looking trough device manager.. Today I was [...]
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Finding and adding only the correct device driver to the Boot image
How to figure out the exact drivers necessary for the WinPE 3.0 boot image for SCCM to work properly, and keeping the amount of drivers to a bare minimum.
Category: Boot Media, Drivers, OS Deployment, WinPE | 7 Comments
Can’t find the Intel(R) 6 Series storage driver!
Finding the Intel 6 series driver for an XP OS deployment
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Automate changes to Device manager ( DEVCON )
During Automated Build and capture, and sometimes during deployment it’s nice to be able to automate changes to the device manager (well devices, but basally the ones you se in the device manager). Her the Microsoft tool DEVCON comes in handy.. Lets say you need to remove some devices before you capture you master [...]
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Using BDD/MDT DriverPaths1 in SCCM
I have always loved the DriverPaths1=\\server\path\%model% part of BDD\MDT because it enabled you to have all your model specific drivers in a corresponding folder rather than a repository. SCCM pretty much forces you to use repositories…. I know that you can create different driver packages and categorize your drivers, thereby enabling you to only [...]
Category: Drivers | 5 Comments
Storage drivers in XP image
When capturing an image, it’s always a good idea to add needed storage drivers to the [SysprepMassStorage] section of your Sysprep.inf before capturing. The two most common Mass Storage Drivers are the : Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver (IaStore.sys) and Dell SAS 5x and SAS 6x Controller Driver (symmpi.sys) In Sysprep.inf add the following [...]
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Unpack Intel drivers
I recently spent more time that I should have, trying to unpack both the Intel NIC drivers executable and the Mass Storage driver executable. For some reason it is not easy to find the correct switches to use for this action, and when you find them it can be somewhat difficult to figure out [...]
Category: Drivers | 3 Comments
