1. Adding Drivers To Windows Deployment Services
2. Adding Drivers To Windows Deployment Server Download
3. Windows Deployment Services

On the Select role services page, select the role services to install for Windows Deployment Services. Leave these role services selected by default if you want to install both the Deployment Server and Transport Server. Finally on the Confirm installation selections page, click Install. First of all, you need to install Windows Deployment Services role on Windows Server 2012 R2. This can be done via Server Manager console. In the list of roles you need to set checkbox at the Windows Deployment Services item and press Next. In the WDS Role Services component select to install Deployment Server and Transport Server services.

Applies to

• Windows 10 versions 1507, 1511

[!IMPORTANT]For instructions to deploy the most recent version of Windows 10 with Configuration Manager, see Scenarios to deploy enterprise operating systems with System Center Configuration Manager.Configuration Manager 2012 and 2012 R2 provide support for Windows 10 versions 1507 and 1511 only. Later versions of Windows 10 require an updated Configuration Manager release. For a list of Configuration Manager versions and the corresponding Windows 10 client versions that are supported, see Support for Windows 10 for System Center Configuration Manager.

In this topic, you will learn how to configure the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) to include the network drivers required to connect to the deployment share and the storage drivers required to see the local storage on machines. Even though the Windows PE boot image and the Windows 10 operating system contain many out-of-the-box drivers, it is likely you will have to add new or updated drivers to support all your hardware. In this section, you import drivers for both Windows PE and the full Windows 10 operating system.

For the purposes of this topic, we will use CM01, a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard that is a member of the domain contoso.com for the fictitious Contoso Corporation. For more details on the setup for this topic, please see Deploy Windows 10 with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

Add drivers for Windows PE

This section will show you how to import some network and storage drivers for Windows PE. This section assumes you have downloaded some drivers to the E:SourcesOSDDriverSourcesWinPE x64 folder on CM01.

Adding Drivers To Windows Deployment Services

1. On CM01, using the Configuration Manager Console, in the Software Library workspace, right-click the Drivers node and select Import Driver.

2. In the Import New Driver Wizard, on the Specify a location to import driver page, below the Import all drivers in the following network path (UNC) option, browse to the CM01Sources$OSDDriverSourcesWinPE x64 folder and click Next.

3. On the Specify the details for the imported driver page, click Categories, create a category named WinPE x64, and then click Next.

4. On the Select the packages to add the imported driver page, click Next.

5. On the Select drivers to include in the boot image page, select the Zero Touch WinPE x64 boot image. Also select the Update distribution points when finished check box, and click Next twice.

Figure 21. Add drivers to Windows PE

[!NOTE]The Updating Boot Image part of the wizard will appear to hang when displaying Done. It will complete in a minute or two.

Add drivers for Windows 10

Adding Drivers To Windows Deployment Server Download

This section illustrates how to add drivers for Windows 10 through an example in which you want to import Windows 10 drivers for the HP EliteBook 8560w model. For the purposes of this section, we assume that you have downloaded the Windows 10 drivers for the HP EliteBook 8560w model and copied them to the E:SourcesOSDDriverSourcesWindows 10 x64HP EliteBook 8560w folder on CM01.

1. On CM01, using the Configuration Manager Console, right-click the Drivers folder and select Import Driver.

2. In the Import New Driver Wizard, on the Specify a location to import driver page, below the Import all drivers in the following network path (UNC) option, browse to the CM01Sources$OSDDriverSourcesWindows 10 x64HP EliteBook 8560w folder and click Next.

3. On the Specify the details for the imported driver page, click Categories, create a category named Windows 10 x64 - HP EliteBook 8560w, and then click Next.

   Figure 22. Create driver categories

4. On the Select the packages to add the imported driver page, click New Package, use the following settings for the package, and then click Next:

   • Name: Windows 10 x64 - HP EliteBook 8560w

   • Path: CM01Sources$OSDDriverPackagesWindows 10 x64HP EliteBook 8560w

   [!NOTE]The package path does not yet exist, so you have to type it in. The wizard will create the new package in that folder.

5. On the Select drivers to include in the boot image page, do not select anything, and click Next twice. After the package has been created, click Close.

   [!NOTE]If you want to monitor the driver import process more closely, you can open the SMSProv.log file during driver import.

   Figure 23. Drivers imported and a new driver package created

Related topics

KB ID 0000314

Problem

Before Server 2008 R2 when we needed to inject drivers into our WDS images we had to do it like this.

Now however the process is a lot more elegant! Simply import the drivers into WDS, then inject them into the boot images (Yes the boot images NOT the Windows Images you are deploying!)

Windows Deployment Services

Solution

Add Driver Packages to Image is “Greyed out”

If while attempting to add drivers, the option to “Add Driver Packages to Image” is grayed out.

Then you may need to update your boot images from Server 2008/Vista images to 2008 R2/Windows 7 Images. (or from version 6.0.6000 to 6.1.7600).

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