Update Drivers on existing running clients

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Hi All,

I need to upgrade the specific drivers for different models on my running clients. But I need it without re-imaging the machine or running the task sequence. Any help or suggestions how can I achieve this.

Regards
Kanik Garg

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You will probably have to make a software distribution task to silently install the driver.

There are a couple ways to add drivers – the easiest would be if the exe had a silent install command line option.

Otherwise you can just use dpinst to silent install the driver once its deployed.

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You don’t need to make a Software Distribution task, but you could. A normal task will work.

###The relevance should check the following location:

folders "DriverStore\FileRepository" of system x64 folders

Note: the above relevance is valid for both x32 bit and x64 bit systems. The system x64 folders just means to disable redirection on x64 bit systems. In most cases it is possible to use a single relevance statement to check something on both x32 and x64, there are just some odd things to be aware of like this.

###Here are some examples:

There are many more examples on BigFix.me but in general, if it is one that I made that is newer, it is usually better in terms of relevance and actionscript.

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Would you just use a prefetch pointing to the vendor’s website? How would you do it without uploading the driver to the BigFix server?

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Generate a prefetch that points to the vendors website. The Root server will load it into it’s download cache ( which you should definitely make larger than the default, I recommend 300gb or more )

Almost all of my examples on BigFix.me will work on any root server BECAUSE they point to the vendor website. If they didn’t, then either I would have to host the download somewhere else for the sake of everyone, or the user of the task would have to precache it themselves, or put it on their root themselves. My examples on BigFix.me are designed to work out of the box without any effort on the user’s part when possible. This means they sometimes break when vendors update the file the prefetch points to, or if they stop hosting an old version of the download. They will still function if you used them in the past and the download is still in the Root Servers Cache.

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Thanks guys for the prompt reply, I will look into the suggestions and will get back to you.