Driver Issues

Psycholiquid

@austinjt01 https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Create_a_windows_7_image_for_many_different_hardware

Read about injecting drivers there, you don’t have to take the image down to do it, you can do it from inside the OS.

x23piracy

@psycholiquid isn’t this done typically for offline images?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825070.aspx

Means he needs to reinstall the os after that.

Maybe he’s searching for a way to integrate drivers into a living system?

Regards X23

Psycholiquid

Yeah dropping them into a folder isn’t going to work. Windows looks for drivers i the winsxs folder (No you cant drop them there either)

That is why injection is good, do it before the image that way they are already there. There are ways to use batch files to install the drivers but I think it is a little messy.

Psycholiquid

Doing it while live:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824971.aspx

george1421

Its possible to have the fog post install script place the files onto the target computer during image deployment and have windows find them and integrate them during OOBE. That is how we have been “injecting” drivers since the XP days. Truthfully, injecting is not the right word, it more like placing the files in a spot and telling winsetup to look in that spot for drivers.

I have a few tutorials out there on how to do this
here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8889/fog-post-install-script-for-win-driver-injection

and here for more advanced bits: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7740/the-magical-mystical-fog-post-download-script

For win10 to find the drivers you placed with the post install script you need to add the following section (at the end of the post) to your unattend.xml file: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8889/fog-post-install-script-for-win-driver-injection/3 That section tells windows OOBE to look for drivers on the local hard drive. The only caveat is the drivers MUST be on the local hard drive as OOBE is running AND you must sysprep your images.

austinjt01

I found this: www.alexcomputerbubble.com/automate-driver-installation

I currently am trying to load the drivers using the command line tool PnPutil with a powershell script

I added a folder on my vm (C:\drivers)
With the powershell script that should load the machine specific drivers into the driver store

And also adding a SetupComplete.cmd file to execute with local system privileges.

I think instead grabbing generic drivers from the store it’s trying to install them. But currently it has been sitting at the Windows “Just a moment screen” with the little annoying spinning circle.

george1421

@austinjt01 The problem is that the setupcomplete.cmd runs at the end of OOBE some hardware needs drivers in the beginning of the process to run. Now we have had to run dism to “re-inject” the drivers during setupcomplete.cmd for certain hardware. The condition here is that some hardware is hidden behind other hardware (i.e. network controllers behind a usb-c interface). The usb-c interface would be detected but not the network adapter. DISM inject at the end would ensure that all drivers are loaded at the end of the setup process. The previous example may not have been the best, but we have seen hardware hidden behind other hardware that wasn’t discovered initially.

The other thing is that your reference image needs to have certain hardware drivers pre-loaded for instances like unique sata controllers that are required for the OS to see the disk for setup.

austinjt01

So do you see any problem with using DISM to install the drivers? I tried it on one machine before I left on Friday and checking the results now in the log.txt file everything seems to been accomplished:

That is just a few lines from the log file:

Installing driver: C:\drivers\Alcor Smart Card Reader Driver - 10 [64] 1.7.45.15(n1eva07w)\x64
Installing driver: C:\drivers\Integrated Camera Driver for Realtek - 10 [64] 10.0.15063.11286(n1eca13w_rek)\Driver\Realtek
Installing driver: C:\drivers\Integrated Camera Driver for Realtek - 10 [64] 10.0.15063.11286(n1eca13w_rek)\Driver\Realtek
Installing driver: C:\drivers\Integrated Camera Driver for Realtek - 10 [64] 10.0.15063.11286(n1eca13w_rek)\Driver\Sunplus
Installing driver: C:\drivers\Integrated Camera Driver for Realtek - 10 [64] 10.0.15063.11286(n1eca13w_rek)\Driver\Sunplus
Installing driver: C:\drivers\Integrated Camera Driver for Realtek - 10 [64] 10.0.15063.11286(n1eca13w_rek)\Driver\Sunplus
Installing driver: C:\drivers\Integrated Camera Driver for Realtek - 10 [64]

This process is not perfect, but before going any further I would like to anyone for some input. Thanks!

austinjt01

@psycholiquid I tried using DISM, but it seems to hang up the imaging process on a black screen until I reboot. However, once rebooting and the OOBE experience finishes, it appears as though the drivers were installed. Maybe it’s hanging up like that because I’m not dealing with an offline image?

x23piracy

DPInst could also be a possible Solution where you can Build your custom drivers install pack:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ff544842(v=vs.96)

For example, we have HP Probooks 650 with a WLAN enabled/disable Button, you need a Driver so the Button LED will lit different (OMG). Therefore i used dpinst:

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To run dpinst silent use:

dpinst.exe /q /se

You don’t need to configure something for dpinst, just place a driver with a inf starting with as root into the dpinst.exe folder.

You can place more then one driver in the same folder as long as you don’t overwirte any files (maybe also subfolders are supported, i am not sure).

Regards X23

Psycholiquid

@austinjt01 I will try to make a video of how I do it, and place it on Youttube this weekend.

sudburr

I’m a big fan of dpinst as well. Injecting for reals, into an OS for 30 different platforms prior to sysprep bloats the registry and can even poison an image in extreme cases.

I prefer to not leave Windows to install drivers as it wants, but where I want, when I want; I do this in the unattend.xml.

<settings pass="specialize">
	<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
		<ExtendOSPartition>
			<Extend>true</Extend>
		</ExtendOSPartition>
		<RunSynchronous>
			<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
				<Order>1</Order>
				<Description>Driver Installation Pass 1 of 3</Description>
				<Path>"C:\temp\drivers\dpinst.exe" /path "C:\temp\drivers" /q /se</Path>
			</RunSynchronousCommand>
			<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
				<Order>2</Order>
				<Description>Driver Installation Pass 2 of 3</Description>
				<Path>"C:\temp\drivers\dpinst.exe" /path "C:\temp\drivers" /q /se</Path>
			</RunSynchronousCommand>
			<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
				<Order>3</Order>
				<Description>Driver Installation Pass 3 of 3</Description>
				<Path>"C:\temp\drivers\dpinst.exe" /path "C:\temp\drivers" /q /se</Path>
			</RunSynchronousCommand>
		</RunSynchronous>
	</component>
</settings>

Where C:\temp\drivers\ contains every driver extracted from every system needed.

Alongside dpinst.exe in c:\temp\drivers I also place the dpinst.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<dpinst> 
	<!-- equivalent to /sa -->
	<suppressAddRemovePrograms/>
	<!-- The following search and subDirectory elements direct DPInst to search all subdirectories (under the DPInst working directory) to locate driver packages. -->
	<search> 
		<subDirectory>*</subDirectory> 
	</search> 
	<!-- The following language element localizes its child elements for the English (Standard) language. The child elements customize the text that appears on the DPInst wizard pages. -->
	<language code="0x0409"> 
		<dpinstTitle>Device Driver Updater</dpinstTitle> 
		<welcomeTitle>Welcome to the Device Installer!</welcomeTitle> 
		<welcomeIntro>This wizard will walk you through updating the drivers for your device.</welcomeIntro> 
		<installHeaderTitle>Installing the software for your device...</installHeaderTitle> 
		<finishTitle>Congratulations! You finished installing your device drivers.</finishTitle> 
	</language> 
	<!-- equivalent to /sh -->
	<scanHardware/>
</dpinst>

I run dpinst three times deliberately. First to grab primary devices, then to detect and load daughter devices, and then finally for those very few tertiary devices that can only be seen after two other parent devices are loaded.

I then leave it to setupcomplete.cmd to reclaim the disk space taken up by staging the drivers in the image.

@REM Place this file in C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts
@REM SetupComplete.cmd is executed as final step of coming out of Sysprep under SYSTEM account

@REM Cleanup
del /Q /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\closer*.xml
del /Q /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\default*.xml
del /Q /F c:\windows\panther\unattend.xml
rd /s /q C:\temp
rd /s /q C:\temp

This does not take care of any OEM software which I install through separate automated means.

My current driver pack for Windows 10 (64) is fully compatible with 30 different makes/models in our environment.

Manufacturer Model Name Model Version

Dell Inc. Latitude 3379 <blank>
Dell Inc. OptiPlex 790 <blank>
Dell Inc. OptiPlex 7010 <blank>
Dell Inc. OptiPlex 7020 <blank>
Dell Inc. XPS One 2710 <blank>

LENOVO 7373BTU ThinkCentre M58

LENOVO 3548C1U ThinkCentre M72z
LENOVO 3548C8U ThinkCentre M72z

LENOVO 10BBS00Y00 ThinkCentre M73z
LENOVO 10BBS12Q00 ThinkCentre M73z

LENOVO 10EWS0B000 ThinkCentre M800z
LENOVO 10NY0010US ThinkCentre M810z

LENOVO 20GKS0A700 ThinkPad 13
LENOVO 20J2S0MJ00 ThinkPad 13 2nd Gen

LENOVO 20FES0VJ00 ThinkPad Yoga 260

LENOVO 20JJS2F200 ThinkPad Yoga 370

LENOVO 30ASS3NA0 ThinkStation P310

LENOVO 30BH002KUS ThinkStation P320

Toshiba PORTEGE R830 PT320C-0F502L
Toshiba PORTEGE R830 PT320C-01H018
Toshiba PORTEGE R830 PT320C-05L02L

Toshiba PORTEGE R930 PT330C-00v009
Toshiba PORTEGE R930 PT330C-05X039
Toshiba PORTEGE R930 PT330C-08S039

Toshiba PORTEGE Z930 PT235C-02H049

Toshiba PORTEGE R30-A PT341C-00W00T
Toshiba PORTEGE R30-A PT343C-0YP08W
Toshiba PORTEGE R30-A PT343C-01N01J

Toshiba PORTEGE Z30t-A PT24CC-05D02V

Toshiba TECRA R700 PT318C-00C001

x23piracy

@sudburr hey thank you for this, you are really more advanced with the dpinst usage.
Appreciate your post a lot

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