Deploying a driver package outside of OSD

[P@docIT]

Is it possible to advertise a driver package outside of an OSD? We have some training machines that are Dell Optiplex 755's. Originally these machines were going to be removed and upgraded to a newer machine before getting Win 7. However we want to use them for some testing before getitng rid of them. Anyway my Win 7 OSD does not include a step to apply drivers for a 755. Is there a way to advetise the driver package after the "imaging" process?

 

Thanks,

Mike

[Trevor Sullivan]

You can't really advertise a driver package to a system. What you could do, however, is build a standard software package that points to the same location as the driver package, and then advertise a program that runs pnputil.exe -a (adds driver to driver store) or pnputil.exe -a -i (adds driver to driver store and installs the driver).

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

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[P@docIT]

Great,

 

Thanks for the info. Very useful and much appreciated.

 

Mike