Offline Media and Drivers

Roger Hendrikse 246 Reputation points
2020-10-06T08:24:33.92+00:00

We support about 28 different models of machines in our Configuration Manager OSD Task Sequence, which requires storing all those drivers on DPs, and also including them in the Offline Media. Having such large Offline Media is causing an issue in our environment

Is there a way to configure the Task Sequence used for Offline Media such that we don't include any driver packages in the task sequence (and therefore they don't take space in the Offline Media), but rather add them to the USB after Offline Media ISO has been written to the USB ?

I was thinking we create an empty package with a program that copies contents of that package to a specific folder on the machine, and then once we have written Offline Media to USB, we copy whatever drivers we want to use into the folder for that package on the USB. If this is a viable option, how would I tell the Task Sequence to use drivers in the folder on the machine once they have been copied to the machine ?

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Microsoft Configuration Manager: An integrated solution for for managing large groups of personal computers and servers.Deployment: The process of delivering, assembling, and maintaining a particular version of a software system at a site.
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  1. Fiona Yan-MSFT 2,311 Reputation points
    2020-10-08T08:23:55.66+00:00

    @Roger Hendrikse

    To achieve our goal,maybe we could add an inject driver command line running step in our task sequence, here is the command line shown below:
    DISM /Image:C:\ /Add-Driver /driver:D:\ /recurse
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    Here is a helpful article for you to refer to:
    https://gist.github.com/TomCan/9644966
    Note: this is non-official article just for your reference.

    At the same time, we could create a new folder in our USB, put the written script file under the root directory, such as a file named a.bat, and name a folder separately under the new folder folder ,and then we put the drivers of various models inside, rough structure like:
    new folder\a.bat path, our script filters out .inf files based on the model.

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  1. Fiona Yan-MSFT 2,311 Reputation points
    2020-10-07T07:51:33.97+00:00

    @Roger Hendrikse
    Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.
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    Based on my understanding, I got the following directions, please correct me if I am incorrect.

    1. Could we know how big this offline media is?
    2. May we know what an issue is? Maybe it means that we could not create offline media or is it a problem when we deploy media?

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