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In ConfigMgr, when doing OS Deployment from HTTPS enabled DPs, or via Peer Cache (uses HTTPS too), or via BranchCache (encrypted data + encrypted transfers), you will find that using traditional driver packages, with thousands of small files, is not going as fast as you would like. In fact, a single deployment can take a good 5-10 minutes to download a large driver package depending on the environment.

Note: While this post deals with driver packages in ConfigMgr, you can apply the same strategy for application packages that have many small files, or simply really large applications that could benefit from a bit of compression. For example, I've worked with organizations that create wim images for their larger applications, and instead of extracting the wim prior to running the application setup, they simply mount the wim image, and run the installer from that one.

Update, March 1, 2020: Maurice Daly is has updated his Driver Automation Tool to create WIM, ZIP or 7-zip versions of the driver packages too. It's a fantastic tool, I highly recommend using it.

By switching your ConfigMgr driver packages to archived versions, you don't only make them much smaller, but also increases overall download speed and peer-to-peer efficiency. Usually between 5-10 times faster depending on content source. WIM and Zip will give you much better deduplication rates, and better P2P performance. But 7-zip format will reduce package size a bit more.

In this example, I was using BranchCache as the peer-to-peer solution for ConfigMgr OSD, but you'll see similar behavior for normal HTTPS downloads either directly from the DP, or HTTPS downloads via Peer Cache.

Note: When zipping driver packages you do lose the single instance store benefits of the ConfigMgr Content Library for these packages, but in my testing the benefits of reducing package size by zipping driver packages totally outweighs the single instance store. As an example, I imported 26 driver models the traditional way, their source size was 43 GB, and the Content Library grew with 29 GB. For the zipped versions, even on the lowest compression rate, the resulting size was 22 GB. When adding data deduplication to the distribution point, another 8 GB was saved, and disk usage was down to 14 GB.

Many organizations have already switched to use legacy packages for the drivers, and have DISM just inject them during the task sequence. But why not take it one step further, and simply zip the content in your driver packages.

You can either use PowerShell (5) or 7-Zip to archive the driver package into an individual zip or WIM file. If you are optimizing for BranchCache data deduplication efficiency among many packages, use the Compress-Archive cmdlet with compression level set to Fastest, and for 7-Zip, use the zip format with the deflate algorithm. BranchCache really likes these algorithms, and is quite good in figuring out deltas for these formats too. If you are optimizing for fastest possible deployments, and don't pre-cache lot of data, 7-zip on ultra compression will create quite small packages.

Note: While it may be tempting to use super-high compression algorithms, doing so will lower data deduplication efficiency, and delta updates of packages (BranchCache uses data deduplication). That being said, higher compression algorithms will usually reduce the size with another 30 percent or so, so for direct download from DP having data deduplication enabled, or from Peer Cache, which can't do data deduplication, you might want to use it.

The final step is to configure your task sequence to use the Zip-version of your driver package. Basically it will just download the package first, and then extract it using PowerShell.Note: If you follow this example, don't forget to add PowerShell to your boot image(s), or the Expand-Archive command is not going to work very well

There are many options to get the download/extraction going, but for example a regular \"Run Command Line\" action together with a WMI condition, will do just fine. The command line I used to extract the content of the Zip-version of the driver package is the following:

The final step is to instruct the task sequence to inject the drivers that were extracted into the driver store using DISM. For this you add another Run Command Line action, with the following command:

Don't forget to add a condition to the command so it only runs if the folder exist. You don't want the task sequence to error just because you deployed a machine where you didn't need to use any drivers (or forgot to add them).

Hi David,The modern driver automation tool from Maurice and Nickolaj nicely takes care of creating WIM files of your per-model driver packages. I do have some examples offline as well, please reach out to me on LinkedIn if you would like a copy.

The Invoke-CMApplyDriverPackage.ps1 takes care of locating the driver archive and unpacking it. That script was designed for packages created by the Driver Automation Tool, but will work with custom driver packages too as long as you configure the settings right.

As far as the dism /add-driver issues when drivers are broken for whatever reason goes, I recommend validate the driver content prior to create the package in ConfigMgr. Can easily be done by importing them into an \"empty\" MDT deployment share via PowerShell. It will tell you which drivers that are not ok. As far as how ConfigMgr deals with the suppression of errors I don't know. Their default inject option is not to use dism, but rather their own executable.

Hey Johan, I know you posted this long ago, and I'm not using the zip format, but I am using the same dism command line to install the drivers. They appear to be installing fine but when I look at the status messages, on some systems, I get an error code 3 (The system cannot find the path specified). I thought it might be the log path but I've tried hardcoding it and still see the error. Have you ever seen this before

Hello Johan, another great post! I did this the same thing an year ago for a customer to save space on SCCM server and DPs. I used 7z compression and the size was down to 30% on an average for driver packages.

First download the Verified Linux package from the below link and read its release note included in it carefully. Please download additional files required for your purpose by referring to the release note.

If you purchased an OEM branded server or appliance, contact your OEM for a SW driver version that is compatible with your exact FW version. Using SW and FW versions that have not been validated to work together will affect performance, feature availability, and system stability.

This. zip file contains all of the Intel Ethernet network drivers and software for currently supported versions of Windows*, Linux*, and FreeBSD* for most Intel Ethernet Adapters. Not all Intel Ethernet Adapters and Intel Ethernet Controllers are supported under every version of Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD.This is a large file. We recommend downloading smaller files for your operating system if you don't need software for every OS.

When state=present, product_id is not set and the path is a URL, this file will always be downloaded to a temporary directory for idempotency checks, otherwise the file will only be downloaded if the package has not been installed based on the product_id checks.

In this post, you will learn about the process of download HP Driver Packs for SCCM. This guide also helps you create HP drivers packages in SCCM. Device driver packs that can be used with ConfigMgr or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

Here you can get references for all available device drivers in random order. Use the browser Find function (typically CTRL + F) to find specific driver packs.

Click on the Driver Packs link under Windows Version as shown below (for example, HP ProDesk 600 G5). This model contains the drivers for the EliteDesk\\ProDesk 400/600/800 G5 series. You can use the same package for all these listed models.

Right-Click on the downloaded file select Run as administrator to start the extraction process. A UAC prompt may appear to allow this app to make changes to your devices Click on Yes. You will see the Driver Pack Wizard. Click on Next.

lessmsi is really the best choice here, as it offers you to choose exactly what files to extract and where they should go. In addition it can be easily installed using the apt-get framework for windows, called Choclatey. The above lessmsi website has moved and it can also be found/downloaded at GitHub. In addition you can find many other tools and MSI related information HERE. :(Sorry, I can't post more than 2 links!)

So currently my users download a zipfile, unzip it and then run setup.exe - I would like them to do this with one click. Using -7Zip-to-Create-Self-Extracting-excutables i can make a self-extracting exe, but it doesn't actually run the installer.

After starting the VM, double click the Refresh Samples desktop shortcut. This will download the latest content to the VM - including patches and new samples.See the Deployment Guide for details.

There are two processor variations for the L10 product platform. These are identified by the model number specified for each driver.The model number is shown on the label under the battery in a tablet.

I have 2 systems with AMD 990FX motherboards, and FX-8350 processors. I NEED the RAID drivers and RAIDXpert software, but it refuses to install on my systems with an \"Error 173\" because I use Nvidia graphics cards. I know this has been reported previously here, and in over a year it's still not fixed. 59ce067264

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