• Import Driver Packages Sccm 2012
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Import Driver Packages Sccm 2012

In this blog I will take you through the steps of importing driver packages correctly into SCCM. Importing drivers into SCCM is in general a pretty simple task but their are a few pitfalls you have to be aware of. When you first start importing drivers packages for just a few hardware models you will not have any difficulties.

Overtime when you have to start importing new driver packages or multiple driver packages at once you can run into issues quickly.You may think So what is the problem with importing driver packages into SCCM.?The problem is the behavior of SCCM itself. When you try to import a driver which can be part of a different driver package that already exists in SCCM it will just append whatever category you have defined to that existing driver.

Import Driver Packages Sccm 2012 Download

So by default you can’t import duplicate drivers. This means that you can’t create stand-alone driver packages and after a while drivers will be part of multiple categories.If you don’t mind that drivers can be part of multiple driver categories or drivers for hardware model X are part of driver package for hardware model Y than that’s OK.

You only have to make sure you will never delete any driver packages in the future otherwise you will definitely run into issues.Personally I prefer to create stand-alone driver packages for each hardware model separately. In this way I it is easier to manage all drivers and driver packages.Driver management goals:. Create a stand-alone driver package per hardware model. Keep driver management in SCCM easyFollow the next steps to keep driver management in SCCM easy: Step 1: Download driver packagesFirst we have to download and prepare a driver package before we can start importing it into SCCM. From the bigger hardware vendors like Dell, HP and Lenovo you can download complete driver packages.Download the driver packs from here:Dell:HP:Lenovo:Extract the driver cabs and copy them to your SCCM driver source location.In my case that will be Drivers Sources Step2: Import duplicate driversPrepare the driver package first by following the next steps before importing:. Create a bat file inside the driver source root folder and copy the below script and add it into the batch file. Name it for example “DellLatitude5580Win10x64A05.cmd”@ECHO OFFfor /f 'tokens=.'

%%G IN ('dir /ad /b /s') DO (echo. '%%G%n0.txt'). Run the batch file and it will create a “ DellLatitude5580Win10x64A05.txt” file inside each folder. Because each folder has an additional.txt file the file hash of each folder will be different and therefore SCCM thinks its a different driver. So now we can start importing the drivers.

Import Driver Packages Sccm 2012 Software

Import Pre-Configured Applications to ConfigMgr (Configuration Manager) 2012 console and Become an Expert in New Application Model.It will take only 10 minutes to import 11 applications with all the configurations like global conditions, Dependent Applications and Supersedence Applications. Play around with 11 applications in NO time.This import will also create 14 different deployment types for all these applications with Install and UN-install command lines. The details of all the deployments types and command lines are given in the bottom of this post.