Drop it in the same folder as the .inf/.sys files and just run dpinst64.exe /q 
/sh. The switches may change based on what you are trying to do.

Daniel Ratliff

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Murray, Mike
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 6:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mssms] RE: General question on Driver updates

Anyone have a good step by step tutorial for using DPInst.exe? I downloaded the 
WDK.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff
Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 5:45 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] RE: General question on Driver updates

We just recently changed positions on this. Before, we held the same 
perspective, "if it aint broke, don't fix it".

We had a RAP with Microsoft for 'Windows Desktop' in 2014 and again last year 
and two of our top issues were no standardization cross drivers and BIOS 
versions. Now we standardize on all network and graphics drivers with a 6-12 
month true up. Surprisingly, deploying the driver files and using dpinst.exe to 
load them works great, even for laptops over wireless and updating the wireless 
driver. We now have all of our top models standardized across the enterprise as 
well as in OSD, so we have a baseline to work with.

We haven't started the BIOS standardization yet.

Daniel Ratliff

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:39 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] General question on Driver updates

Hey
I need to take the pulse of the community on a specific subject.

When Drivers are updated (like the Intel Chipset, etc.) if you do not have a 
reported issue that needs to be addressed, do you still keep the driver sets as 
current as possible on your workstations or do you leave well enough alone.

I started in 1998 with SMS 1.2 and was the Desktop Engineer for ~4,000 systems 
before getting to the Enterprise team where we now manage over 150,000 systems 
and someone is proposing that we update Drivers when they come out on all 
systems - Not just the SCCM Client and the WUA.

But in all my years we only deployed drivers when an issue was reported and 
verified.  If it ain't broke - don't fix it - but is this something new with 
Windows 10?

Thanks for your thoughts.




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