We started with ENGL last year at a time when we were migrating from CM07 to CM12, and wanted to revamp our approach to driver organization anyway.
ENGL took away a lot of the pain of getting up and running with about 20 models all at the same time, but was not perfect. Our main Desktop engineer working on OSD estimates ENGL got us 80% of the way there out of the box, and left 20% of oddball items to figure out between Lenovo annoyances and ENGL behavior. Part of the issue was ENGL didn't seem to have many Lenovo customers at the time so we were making a lot of first time requests for them to catalog drivers for our models (plus we were trying to test a couple not-typically-enterprise Ultrabook models at the same time). We will probably renew our license in order to try out the new version due out soon which is expected to take care of a lot of the "remaining 20%", and they say they have a stronger Lenovo customer base now. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Charles Moore <[email protected]>wrote: > Manual here, it’s really not that bad, once you configure it, you > shouldn’t have to touch it again unless something doesn’t work in the > future. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Underwood, Bob > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:27 PM > *To:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* RE: [mssms] SCCM OSD Driver Managers > > > > I’m in roughly the same boat for models, and the overall picture is > getting worse lately… have had to recently add support for a 32-bit version > of Windows 7, and we’re ramping up with Windows 8 as well. > > > > With that said, I’m still doing it all manually. One of the biggest pain > points is hardware-specific applications and troublesome drivers like > Bluetooth… which all have to be packaged. One of the driver automation > vendors was promising complete automation of those kinds of things as well, > but when I dug deeper I found that it didn’t really do much in that regard. > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Daniel Ratliff > *Sent:* Monday, July 08, 2013 5:53 PM > *To:* '[email protected]'; '[email protected]' > *Subject:* RE: [mssms] SCCM OSD Driver Managers > > > > Nope all manual. We have upwards of 35 models and about 20 driver packages. > > -----Original Message----- > *From: *Stewart, Michael [[email protected]] > *Sent: *Monday, July 08, 2013 06:49 PM Eastern Standard Time > *To: *[email protected] > *Subject: *[mssms] SCCM OSD Driver Managers > > Quick question for everyone. Anybody use Driver Management Software like > ENGL etc. to manage the driver packages for OSD? 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