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MDT used the setup files to install Windows. MDT uses DISM to apply the image; however, you still need the setup files because some components in roles and features are stored outside the main image. When you configure your MDT Build Lab deployment share, you can also add applications to the new deployment share before creating your task sequence.

This section walks you through the process of adding an application to the MDT Production deployment share using Adobe Reader as an example. Extract the. Right-click the Applications node, and create a new folder named Adobe. In the Applications node, right-click the Adobe folder and select New Application.

On the Application Type page, select the Application with source files option and click Next. On the Destination page, in the Specify the name of the directory that should be created text box, type Install - Adobe Reader and click Next.

In order to deploy Windows 10 with MDT successfully, you need drivers for the boot images and for the actual operating system. This section will show you how to add drivers for the boot image and operating system, using the following hardware models as examples:. For boot images, you need to have storage and network drivers; for the operating system, you need to have the full suite of drivers.

You should only add drivers to the Windows PE images if the default drivers don't work. Adding drivers that are not necessary will only make the boot image larger and potentially delay the download time. The key to successful management of drivers for MDT, as well as for any other deployment solution, is to have a really good driver repository. From this repository, you import drivers into MDT for deployment, but you should always maintain the repository for future use.

In the steps below, it is critical that the folder names used for various computer makes and models exactly match the results of wmic computersystem get model,manufacturer on the target system. Even if you are not going to use both x86 and x64 boot images, we still recommend that you add the support structure for future use. When you import drivers to the MDT driver repository, MDT creates a single instance folder structure based on driver class names.

However, you can, and should, mimic the driver structure of your driver source repository in the Deployment Workbench. This is done by creating logical folders in the Deployment Workbench.

The preceding folder names should match the actual make and model values that MDT reads from devices during deployment. You can find out the model values for your machines by using the following command in Windows PowerShell:. If you want a more standardized naming convention, try the ModelAliasExit. By default, MDT adds any storage and network drivers that you import to the boot images.

However, you should add only the drivers that are necessary to the boot image. You can control which drivers are added by using selection profiles.

The drivers that are used for the boot images Windows PE are Windows 10 drivers. Windows PE supports all the hardware models that we have, but here you learn to add boot image drivers to accommodate any new hardware that might require additional drivers. In this example, you add the latest Intel network drivers to the x64 boot image. With Update Retriever, you need to specify the correct Lenovo Machine Type for the actual hardware the first four characters of the model name.

To get the updates, download the drivers from the Lenovo ThinkVantage Update Retriever using its export function. You can also download the drivers by searching PC Support on the Lenovo website. The folder you select and all sub-folders will be checked for drivers, expanding any. Right-click the Latitude E folder and select Import Drivers and use the following Driver source directory to import drivers:. For the Microsoft Surface Laptop model, you find the drivers on the Microsoft website.

Right-click the Surface Laptop folder and select Import Drivers ; and use the following Driver source directory to import drivers:. This section will show you how to create the task sequence used to deploy your production Windows 10 reference image. Right-click the new Windows 10 folder and select New Task Sequence. Use the following settings for the New Task Sequence Wizard:. The configuration above indicates that MDT should only use drivers from the folder specified by the DriverGroup property, which is defined by the "Choose a selection profile: Nothing" setting, and that MDT should not use plug and play to determine which drivers to copy, which is defined by the "Install all drivers from the selection profile" setting.

State Restore. In this section, you will learn how to configure the MDT Build Lab deployment share with the rules required to create a simple and dynamic deployment process. This includes configuring commonly used rules and an explanation of how these rules work. The following instructions assume the device is online. If you're offline you can remove SLShare variable. Select the Rules tab and replace the existing rules with the following information modify the domain name, WSUS server, and administrative credentials to match your environment :.

On the Windows PE tab, in the Platform drop-down list, make sure x86 is selected. On the General sub tab still under the main Windows PE tab , configure the following settings:. Because you are going to use Pre-Boot Execution Environment PXE later to deploy the machines, you do not need the ISO file; however, we recommend creating ISO files because they are useful when troubleshooting deployments and for quick tests.

Although I have one issue. They do a great job for us and many public schools. My issue is when I run this wmic command: wmic computersystem get model I get nothing. Is this going to be a problem? Is there a way around this for me to get the procedure you describe to work?

Any help you can provide would be great! Thanks, Dan. How are you currently managing the Bytespeed drivers for Windows 7?

There are a couple of options. One is to set up Windows 10 on a Bytespeed PC and use PowerShell to do a live export of all the existing drivers in use. This is because the export command includes all of the drivers Windows provides from the install media and from Microsoft Update.

Bytespeed lists the components they use in their products on their website. Depending of the diversity of models in your areas, this could be a big project. Again, you can install these drivers on an example PC and pull them out with PowerShell, or add them to MDT as applications and use a WMI filter to assign them to the correct hardware during deployment. Just get the latest drivers from each vendor for Windows 10 and import them into MDT and you should be fine.

My question is I see some examples set this variable in customsettings. But in what case would you define I assume each device model in customsettings. Hi, I assume very little and seek to find out what the story truly is. This could be helpful if there were only a small amount of different hardware models in use. I have had similar issues with off brand type devices. Hi, great explanation but could you answer the following.

I have created within the Out-of-box-drivers the following tree structure to keep it neat. Regarding the DriverGoup — I have the following command line in there.. Would this work? Does that go into Out-of-Box Drivers as well? Or somewhere else? You would need to provide the full path of the driver folder s to MDT so it can find the drivers.

Very helpful. Do you check this box, or leave it unchecked? If a duplicate is found, how do you handle this? The perfect case for this scenario is if you were updating the entire driver package from the manufacturer.

The easiest way to do wholesale driver updates is to remove all of the old and import all of the new. When the driver cab files are extracted they are in sub folders by Class. Are you saying that because each class is in a subfolder of its own MDT will not find the drivers if the path is only to the model?

I have always recreated the cab file folder structure in MDT and imported the drivers in their class folder. It sounds like in order for me to use the driver injection by model I will have to move all of my current drivers out of their respective class folders and dump them into a single model folder.

Latitude E audio chipset input network. I have never tried the approach you have described, but I think it would work but not the way it was intended. While highly organized, it would seem as if your design might involve more work than is necessary, especially with Windows I would ask how many different models of PC do you need to image? If that is a small number, you could create profiles for each model and assign them through a WMI query.

That approach would take the decision further out from MDTs hands and closer into yours. Very little deciding, more doing. An environment with many different makes and models would work better with an MDT setup that was as general as could be, hence allowing MDT to decide which drivers to install instead of me telling it which drivers to install. A firmer option which would not drastically increase your administrative overhead, would be a separate task sequence for each make. Pretty safe.

Thanks Jason, I work for state government and we use many different model computers. The state employees have a total of 5 models. But we contract out a lot of construction contract work. The contractor is responsible for providing the laptops for their consultants.

We then image them and join them to our network. We have 3 images basic, construction, design which each have specific software per user function.

The only reason I recreated the cab file folder structure in MDT was because I thought it would make it easier to locate problematic drivers by only having to search the specific class folder rather than a single folder full of all drivers. One other question. Jeff Kitterman says: October 9, at pm Nice, thanks.

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