Friday, January 27, 2017

Best Way for an Enterprise to Get Dell Drivers

I've been using a PowerShell program from Keith's Consulting Blog, which would download drivers for a variety of dell models. It includes the Windows PE and the Windows Drivers for use with an MDT deployment server. This script was easy to use but had a pretty basic interface.

https://keithga.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/dell-driver-pack-catalog/

When reading some twitter messages from Johan Arwidmark(@jarwidmark), he retweeted this new tool by Maurice Daly(@modaly_it) that does similar things.

http://deployeverything.com/dell-driver-automation-tool/

The main difference between these two
Utilities is that Maurice's is more flexible as it can handle sccm and/or mdt and that it organized the folders by machine then dell version for the device. In addition it will create driver packages for sccm so that things are very organized.

Interestingly both scripts are based on the same original powershell script but Maurice didn't know about the Keith's script.

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