Share a driver with a partner

To share a driver with one of your partners, create a hardware submission and follow the steps in this article.

Share a driver

1. Search the hardware submission that contains the driver you want to share.

2. Go to the Distribution section of the hardware submission and select New shipping label.

   

3. On the shipping label page, go to the Details section and enter a name for the shipping label in the Shipping label name field. This name is private and isn't visible to your partner. The name allows you to organize and search for your shipping labels.

   

4. In the Properties section, complete the following information:

   Field	Description
   Destination	Select Send to another Partner to share your driver with a partner. If you want to create a shipping label for Windows Update, see Publish a driver to Windows Update.
   Who is publishing?	Search for the company name of your partner, and select it.
   Required CHID targeting by receiver	This option forces your partner to apply Computer Hardware IDs (CHIDs) to any publication requests they create based on your driver. This option allows you to protect your users when a Hardware ID might be shared among many partner companies.

5. In the Targeting section, select the driver package that you want to share.

   

6. After you select your driver package, the Select PNPs grid becomes available. You can search for a specific hardware ID or operating system by using the search box above the list of hardware IDs. Your partner is limited to the hardware ID values you share for any publications they create.

   • To target all listed hardware IDs, select Share All.
   • To target specific hardware IDs, find each desired hardware ID and select Share.
   • If you targeted all hardware IDs and want to remove them, select Revoke All.
   • To remove targeting for specific hardware IDs, find each hardware ID and select Revoke.

7. Select Publish at the bottom to finalize the sharing of the driver. If you don't want to publish the shipping label right now, you can select Save. You can publish the shipping label later by either opening the shipping label and selecting Publish, or you can select Publish all pending from the hardware submission page. Selecting Publish all pending publishes all unpublished shipping labels.

Revoke a hardware ID

Revoking a hardware ID from a shared shipping label does the following steps.

1. Deprecates the existing Submission ID on the receiver's end.

2. A new Private Product ID and Submission ID with the adjusted hardware IDs is shared with your partner. This new entity has the same Shared Product ID. If you selected Revoke All, all hardware IDs are removed.

3. When your partner tries to create a NEW shipping label for Windows Update, their list of available hardware IDs reflect your changes, and only lists those hardware IDs shared by you. In the Revoke All case, their hardware ID grid would be empty.