Windows 10 driver injection doesn't install during sysprep

[Tom Elliott]

There’s also this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/wsim/add-a-device-driver-path-to-an-answer-file

[george1421]

@uwpviolator I ran into the same issue when I was working on our 1709 image (which was put on hold for the moment). I ended up with a hack to use dism in the setupcomplete.cmd to load in all of the drivers in c:\drivers directory.

[george1421]

@tom-elliott said in Windows 10 driver injection doesn't install during sysprep:

@uwpviolator maybe this can help in general for everybody?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/add-device-drivers-to-windows-during-windows-setup

Interesting that one says to use WinPE instead of NonWinPE. That sounds counter intuitive, but if it works…

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 Are you able to share that info?

[george1421]

@uwpviolator Info?

What I saw was a contradiction between my settings

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE"

and what Tom found in his first link

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsWinPE"

The microsoft document said to use Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsWinPE which is counter intuitive to Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE from my guide. I have not had a chance yet to see of this location that Tom found actually works, being monday and all…

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 said in Windows 10 driver injection doesn't install during sysprep:

@uwpviolator I ran into the same issue when I was working on our 1709 image (which was put on hold for the moment). I ended up with a hack to use dism in the setupcomplete.cmd to load in all of the drivers in c:\drivers directory.

This is what I was referring to. How did you call this in the setupcomplete.cmd to pull drivers from C:\Drivers?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/add-and-remove-drivers-to-an-offline-windows-image

[george1421]

@uwpviolator Ah, sorry. I thought you were talking about my last post.

Well it sucks getting old, I didn’t use dism (after looking at the code) this is what I used to force the drivers in.

REM Inject any missing drivers for hardware discovered during oobe
forfiles /p "C:\Drivers" /s /m *.inf /c "cmd /c pnputil -a @Path"

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 Testing that now. Both of the other ways did not work for me.

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 This seems to be working for me. I think I must be missing some drivers that I did not upload to FOG or my model doesn’t like 1709 which by a few forum post might be the case. M$ really screwed up with 1709. Its like the Vista of the Win 10 builds.

[george1421]

@uwpviolator I’ve found that I need to call that pnputil 2-3 times to find all hardware hidden behind other hardware.

I agree that 1709 did some bad things to the non SCCM image cloners.

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 So in setupcomplete.cmd should I tell it to sleep for a period of time between the command or do you just do

REM Inject any missing drivers for hardware discovered during oobe
forfiles /p "C:\Drivers" /s /m *.inf /c "cmd /c pnputil -a @Path"
forfiles /p "C:\Drivers" /s /m *.inf /c "cmd /c pnputil -a @Path"
forfiles /p "C:\Drivers" /s /m *.inf /c "cmd /c pnputil -a @Path"

Also can I do about non .inf that want to be installed? Example HP Hot Key to make keyboard FN keys work?

[george1421]

@uwpviolator Putting a 5 or 10 second sleep would not hurt. That would give the drivers a chance to init before you make pass Next.

As for self installers, I would tag them onto the end of the setupcomplete.cmd file. Just make sure you are sure of the silent install switches.

I do something a bit more complex with my setupcomplete.cmd I have it check for a certain batch file name in the c:\drivers directory. If that batch file exists I call that batch file towards the end of the setupcomplete.cmd file. Remember that directory comes from the fog server with hardware specific drivers. Well if there are self extracting .exe installers in the driver pack that are hardware specific I include them in the driver directory on the fog server. Those get copied over and the setupcomplete.cmd file will call the batch file in the c:\drivers directory which installs the hardware specific .exe drivers and applications.

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 Do you mind sharing that part of you setupcomplete? I am still checking to see if the driver I am missing is just a inf but this could be helpful in the future.

[george1421]

@uwpviolator Sure no problem, but I hate to disappoint you the stuff is not very sexy.

In the setupcomplete.cmd file I have this line.

if exist "c:\drivers\drvinstall.cmd"  call "c:\drivers\drvinstall.cmd"

If we have .exe type drivers that we need to install on the target computer then we will place the .exe files in the drivers directory with the drvinstall.cmd batch so they are copied to the target computer when the rest of the .inf drivers are copied over.

Here is an example of a drvinstall.cmd batch file.

@echo off
echo Please wait wile we install some things you'll need
%~dp0\Bluetooth\Setup.exe /quiet /passive /norestart
%~dp0\WiFi\setup.exe -quiet -passive -norestart 

One other (new) thing is we looked at how we were installing the drivers via pnputil. We have a bit cleaner command syntax.

pnputil.exe /add-driver "c:\drivers\*.inf" /subdirs /install

[UWPVIOLATOR]

@george1421 said in Windows 10 driver injection doesn't install during sysprep:

@echo off
echo Please wait wile we install some things you’ll need
%~dp0\Bluetooth\Setup.exe /quiet /passive /norestart
%~dp0\WiFi\setup.exe -quiet -passive -norestart

Trying to test this out and getting stuck. I am trying to get a HP Softpack to install. I extracted the softpack and got the setup.exe. Per the CVA file. The command for it is

"setup.exe" /s /v"/qn /lv %ProgramData%\Hotkey_setup.log REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS"

If I run this in windows the UAC will pop up. Will this be the same if its being called in setupcomplete? or how do you bypass the UAC? and thinking about how dumb all this is, what is the proper way we are supposed to be adding drivers to Windows as it seems like we are doing it all wrong as this is hard as ^^@&.

[george1421]

@uwpviolator The setupcomplete.cmd runs outside of UAC as does FOG Snap-ins. Running it interactively you will get a UAC prompt.

Realize there is no magic bullet here. MS is making it harder with each release of MS Windows for third party imaging solutions. Soon, I fear, the only game in town will be SCCM.

[fishfox]

@george1421 I’m having this same issue of course – just wondering if anybody had any update on what’s working with 1709?

Putting the path on offlineServicing does not work (and in fact does not seem like it should as it runs during setup IE image generation).

Altering HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath also does not work.

Using pnputil via SetupComplete.cmd runs into issues if the drivers aren’t signed (currently giving this a go).

Currently giving dpinst.exe a go.

[george1421]

@fishfox pnputil is the easiest fix if you have signed drivers. If you don’t have signed drivers, turn off driver signing requirements before you sysprep the image then turn the requirements back on after you run pnputil in setupcomplete.cmd. Not an ideal solution and really unsure why MS broken driver loading with 1709. I haven’t touched 1803 yet to see if they’ve fixed it or broke it even worse.

[fishfox]

@george1421 How do I turn off driver signing requirements?

Tried via Local Group Policy, BCDEdit, no luck.

Thanks for all your help.

[george1421]

@fishfox Give me a moment to look at my MDT setup