Update drivers through SCCM

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jkabaseball

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Update drivers through SCCM Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:35 PM (permalink)
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I'm in the need to update video drivers on a bunch of PC's.  They all have the same hardware, so it's only one driver that needs updated.  Is there a way to do this with SCCM? I know how to apply drivers to task sequences for OSD but not sure if it's possible or how to if I just want to update drivers and not redo the PC.
 
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    Re:Update drivers through SCCM Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:58 PM (permalink)
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    You can do this with Software Deployment or with Software Update Management/SCUP.  The most straight forward is to just deploy the package/program to a collection that has the old driver.
     
     
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      Re:Update drivers through SCCM Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:03 AM (permalink)
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      I just had a similar issue where I needed to update the driver for the AMD Radeon HD 6350 cards in a line of machines that had been recently deployed. For whatever reason (assuming they use the same chipset), everything (Windows Update, the AMD Driver Finder tool) decided I needed the drivers for the Radeon HD 5450 card, so I downloaded that EXE and deployed it with "Setup.exe -install" for a silent install to all computers of this model running Win7.
       
      Hope that helps, or at least sparks some ideas.
       
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        Re:Update drivers through SCCM Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:33 PM (permalink)
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        we're doing a nVidia update, but pretty much the same.  There are a few parameters that makes it really easy.
         
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          Re:Update drivers through SCCM Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:44 PM (permalink)
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          Multiple ways to handle it. 
           
          In addition to what's been mentioned, you could use devcon.exe to update the drivers (using software distribution)
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            Re:Update drivers through SCCM Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:30 PM (permalink)
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            Yeah, I would just set up an overnight advertisement using the silent install switch then, advertised to computers with that card. For us, that meant "all computers of this model," so I just had to set it up like that.
             
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