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July 19, 2012

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ConfigMgr, Drivers, OSD

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ThinkPad Driver Packs for ConfigMgr available

Some of us have been waiting a long time for these.

ThinkPad Driver Packs for ConfigMgr are self-extracting executables with drivers in the folder structure and format so they can imported into ConfigMgr 2007 or 2012 and used in an Operating System Deployment task sequences for deployments.

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Enterprise-Management-IT/Introducing-ThinkPad-Driver-Packs-for-ConfigMgr/m-p/800691

If the links above don’t work, driver packs are a bit harder to locate than they are for Dell and HP. You have to hit the Drivers & Software page on the Lenovo site, then walk through their wizard to identify the model of PC for which you want drivers. Once you do that, you can jump to the Enterprise Management spot and grab the ConfigMgr Packs for the various processor types.

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March 4, 2011

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Drivers, Scripting, Windows 7

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Inject PNP Drivers in Windows 7 post deployment

 If you need a process to find and install drivers post process (after Windows or later as an update)

  1. Populate this key with a path to your drivers
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\UnattendSettings\PnPUnattend\DriverPaths\1
    Path = “d:\Drivers”     <- String
  2. From a script, batch, MDT, setupcomplete.cmd, whatever, Run pnpunattend.exe
    (built into Windows 7 and also there for Vista )

Example: Pnpunattend.exe auditsystem

You can use /s to just search the drivers but not install.  Also, use the /L to output to command so you can pipe into a file if needed.

USAGE:

   PnPUnattend.exe [auditSystem | /help /? /h] [/s] [/L]

       auditSystem   Online driver install.

       /help /? /h    This help.

       /s             Search without installing.

       /L             Print Logging information to the command line.