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- We have a USB video capture device that most of our computers get attached too. The manufacturer does not support anything past windows xp, but windows 7 has a compatible driver available through windows update.
How can I grab this file so I can make a driver package using it when it is hosted at windows update? I really do not want to install it on the base image, then sysprep.
I am triyng to rid my company of the practice of installing every driver for every model on the image, then sysprepping it and cloning, so ideally if there was a way I could grab these inf files and make a driver package it would be helpful.
They literally used to put the image on computer A, load drivers, then sysprep, clone to computer B, load drivers, sysprep. This was their way of making a universal image for the past 3-4 years. Definitely not ideal, especially since we have gateway, HP and Lenovo systems.
Thanks
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- I found out how to do this through the microsoft update catalog. This really can be a useful source to download drivers from if you are in a pinch or cannot find one that installs nicely through the .inf files to work with configmgr. I may end up using this with some ATI video cards that are very difficult to install silently with their setup program.
Woohoo!
- Marked As Answer byRybal Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:50 AM
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- I found out how to do this through the microsoft update catalog. This really can be a useful source to download drivers from if you are in a pinch or cannot find one that installs nicely through the .inf files to work with configmgr. I may end up using this with some ATI video cards that are very difficult to install silently with their setup program.
Woohoo!
- Marked As Answer byRybal Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:50 AM
- I believe you can also grab the files from %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Download\Install when installing using MS Update(one at a time though). I've come across some drivers in the MS update catalog that have 20+ with the exact same name.
