Deploy NIC Driver Update
Hello. Has anyone ever deployed a NIC driver update with Deploy? I've been playing around with WOL and some of my systems work but other do not. I did some testing and it looks like updating the NIC driver fixed the issue. So I was wondering if anyone has pushed out a NIC driver update with Deploy and if so, if there are any things that I need to keep in mind. I did some research and it looks like Intel has a command line tool to do the install silently but I've never tried it.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/ethernet-products/000005778.html
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If you have the INF files you could leverage PNPUtil to install them. I'm doing this as part of my deployment process to take care of any drivers that might have flaked out during the Injection phase of my FOG imaging process.
Notably, I'm doing this with several flavors of driver from Intel to Broadcom depending on model of computer that is being imaged.
Here is the code i'm using in a Powershell step:
This is great because the NIC doesn't really disable/enable like an install process and just starts using the new driver, so I get a Successful Deployment in PDQ when it runs.
Stephen,
Thanks for the suggestion. I was almost done building a new package when I saw your reply. What I ended up doing is downloading the drivers from Intel and then extracting the contents to a new directory in PDQ Repository. Once this was done, I built a package where the first step was to copy that directory to the local system and then the last step ran a command to update the drivers using DxSetup.exe. It worked out pretty well and Deploy even showed it as a successful deployment. Maybe I'll try it your way too that way I have a different way to do it in the future. Thanks again!