PENDING Dell Laptop Driver Deployment Strategy

[w_jackson]

Hello All,

I have a general question about deploying some device drivers. I am working in an environment that has a number of Dell Latitude Device Drivers, and the issue that I face is that if I get the ENTIRE device driver .CAB file from Dell, and try to create a package, insert it into my task sequence, then it balks and the TS actually will not advertise to the clients. If I remove that step with the package, then my TS works fine, but I end up missing some critical drivers (video, chipset). My question is:

1. Could it be because the driver package is too big? <Roughly 14GB when I checked>
2. Did I just have a corrupt package and just recreating it might do the trick?
3. What is the best practice when you need to deploy a fairly large number of drivers.

The environment is 1 DP at present, running SCCM CB 1802. Thanks in advance for any tips.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Sometimes the cab package is not downloaded completely and dell downloads are known for this issue. So ensure that whole cab package is downloaded completely.

I use the Dell Command Driver Import utility, which integrates with ConfigMgr. That is the easiest way to import the drivers from cab file. Once the drivers are imported, you can deploy them through TS via a logic. The logic first checks the hardware model and then deploys the relevant drivers. It doesn't matter what's the package size, the drivers should be deployed in any case.

Here is an example :-