Here is script to delete drivers

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:34:29 Z

I was having problems with corrupt drivers and decided to remove my NIC drivers and re-add them. When I went to delete them I realized with over 100 drivers to delete you have to delete them one by one. This can become a major pain and luckily on this forum there was someone who graciously provided a script that would remove ALL drivers from sccm. With that being said I didn't want to delete over 1000 drivers and re-add all of them, I only wanted a select few. To help others out there that aren't as script oriented I wanted to share my script that will go through and delete disabled drivers. You can select multiple drivers and just click disable, then run this script and it will clear them out for you. It worked quite nicely for me, and I hope it helps the next person!

Code Snippet

' Connect to the SMS namespace

siteNamespace = GetSiteNamespace()

SET objWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!"_
&siteNamespace)

SET drivers = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * From SMS_Driver")

numDriversDeleted = 0

' Process the results

FOR EACH driver in drivers

IF driver.IsEnabled = 0 THEN
driver.Delete_
numDriversDeleted = numDriversDeleted +1
END IF

WScript.Echo "Successfully deleted "&numDriversDeleted&" drivers."

' Utility function to search for the site namespace

FUNCTION GetSiteNamespace()

' Find SMS Provider

SET objSMSNamespace = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel="&_
"impersonate}!\\.\root\sms")

SET results = objSMSNamespace.ExecQuery("SELECT * From "&_
"SMS_ProviderLocation WHERE ProviderForLocalSite = true")

' Process the results

FOR EACH r in results

namespacePath = r.NamespacePath

' Fail if we did not find the site

IF namespacePath = "" THEN

WScript.Echo "Failed to locate SMS provider."

WScript.Quit 1

END IF

' Return

GetSiteNamespace = namespacePath

END FUNCTION

Here is script to delete drivers

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:52:21 Z

Note :- Do not run on workstation with SCCM Admin console you will just get errors.

I run this on my primary site server & although it used nearly 100% CPU after about 5 mins it reprted it "Deleted xxx drivers succesfully" & CPU then restored to normal.

Here is script to delete drivers

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:11:49 Z

Just an idea ... you could simplify your code by changing your query to: select * from sms_driver where IsEnabled = '0' and then avoid having to use the If .. Then statement to determine the criteria to delete.

Trevor Sullivan
Systems Engineer

Here is script to delete drivers

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:31:24 Z

worked for me. thanks for the script. saved me an hour.

Here is script to delete drivers

Wed, 27 May 2009 21:11:27 Z

Didn't work for me.

SwbemObjectEx: Generic Failure

Looks like it is complaining about this line:

driver.delete_

Any ideas?

Here is script to delete drivers

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:43:10 Z

aacajo,

You'd have to provide a little more specific information about the error. What is the message you're getting? Can you post a screenshot on tinypic.com or something?

Trevor Sullivan
Systems Engineer
OfficeMax Corporation

Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

Here is script to delete drivers

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:05:44 Z

Me too. I saw this script elsewhere and thought it was not working. I added a wscript.echo driver.localizedDriverName in the for loop and then saw that it was just taking 20-30 seconds per driver deletion to run on my system. so 90 driver deletions is going to take 40 minutes. Maybe not faster than by hand, but certainly easier.

Here is script to delete drivers

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:08:28 Z

eobiont,

That seems like an abnormally long time to delete each driver. I'm pretty sure mine delete within a few seconds, each.

Trevor Sullivan
Systems Engineer
OfficeMax Corporation

Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation