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Drivers for windows 8 need to be imported in windows 7 computer's deployment share.

Traitée Drivers for windows 8 need to be imported in windows 7 computer's deployment share.

  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:24 PM
     
     
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    Hey everyone, and thanks for any advice in advance :)

    I'm struggling with finding the best way for solving the following problem:

    I am introducing my workplace to MDT, and will have to make a quite simple guide for them, to create images and deploy them using a Media/USB. We need to deploy images to windows 8/windows server 2012 on different HP workstations, and will therefore sometimes need some HP drivers to be imported in the 'Out-of-box drivers'. However, when you download a driver-package from HP's homepage, you will have to install the drivers, and import the folder, created during the installation, to the Out-of-box Drivers.

    My problem is now, that since the guide will have to be quite general, I can't assume for everyone to have their deployment shares/MDT's on a HP workstation running windows 8/Windows server 2012.

    What would be the best way of installing these drivers? Is it possible simply to install them on e.g. windows 7 laptops, and still be able to use the created folder? Will they have to have a physical HP computer, running windows 8, or can a virtual computer (i.e. VMWare) do the job? Or is there maybe a way of directly importing the drivers to the 'Oob Drivers', without installing them, that I'm not aware of?

    Any useful advice or clever thoughts will be generously rewarded with lots of thanks and useful-votes/answer markings.

     

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  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:47 PM
     
     
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    Defintiely no need to install them, just extract them so they are ready to import into the workbench. The SoftPaqs you download from HP are merely self-extracting executables that is some cases kick off the installation of the driver also via a contained installation program. Just cancel this installation program. HP also offers driver packs for use with ConfigMgr and MDT that contain all drivers for a specific model and do not run any installations, they simply extract all of the drivers to a folder -- look for the System Management category I believe. Alternatively, you can use HP's SoftPaq Download manager tool to download and automatically extract drivers for any model: http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/509658-0-0-225-121.html

    Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

     
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:25 PM
     
     
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    Wow this sounds very promising, thanks a lot :)

    However, I'm still a little bit confused, hope you can help me sort the last bits out. When I download a driver pack, it comes as an .exe file (spXXXXX.exe).
     - If I run this file, will the drivers be installed, or will they simply extract the drivers to the c:\swsetup\spXXXXX folder?

    If the latter is the case, I guess you solved my problem very simply :)

     
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:15 PM
     
     
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    By asking this question, you are depriving yourself from the number one learning tool, "trial and error" ;-). But to answer your question, here is how you can seperate drivers.


    • Edited by Amnon Feiner Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:17 PM
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  • Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:43 AM
     
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    What Amnon posted above is configuration from the SDM which will, as mentioned, automatically unpack the softpaqs for you.

    If you choose to download the softpaqs manually, you will have to run spxxxxxx.exe manually also. No, running spxxxxxx.exe does not install the driver(s). As mentioned, this is just a wrapper that first extracts the necessary files and then often kicks off a contained installer.

    Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

    • Marked As Answer by Krims-Krams13 Friday, November 30, 2012 8:57 AM
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  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:17 PM
     
     
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    Yes, I forgot to mention that, I just plucked it out of a manual I wrote for a customer.
     
  • Friday, November 30, 2012 9:09 AM
     
     
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    What Amnon posted above is configuration from the SDM which will, as mentioned, automatically unpack the softpaqs for you.

    If you choose to download the softpaqs manually, you will have to run spxxxxxx.exe manually also. No, running spxxxxxx.exe does not install the driver(s). As mentioned, this is just a wrapper that first extracts the necessary files and then often kicks off a contained installer.

    Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com


    As I have to make a guide, for people without any IT-expertice, it's simpler to give them a link to the homepage, where they can download the drivers. Therefore, it's very appreciated, that this is possible. Thanks! :)
     
  • Friday, November 30, 2012 4:26 PM
     
     
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    I can share a portion of my guide with you, e-mail, my first name and mylast name [@] h0tm@il dot