Wds install drivers

I am having the same issue after injecting drivers into the boot capture image. In native mode the Drivers folder exists. I see where it says to add driver packs, but when I downloaded the drivers from the internet it came as a execuable icon. It will not let me unzip it or explore it to find the. I even tried the task of finding the. Chances are the executable unpacks the contents somewhere, or maybe even prompts you for a location when you run it.

I am having an issue with a Lenovo T when trying to capture an image. Any ideas on that? Despite saying media disconnected. So unlike my other laptops this one did not show it had an IP even though it did.

Go figure. HI, need your help on this, i have installed wds on r2 enterprise, also added boot image but after creating capture image, i am not able to add any drives to same boot image, windows getting freeze. People have encountered a few related issues. Any workaround for this? Anyone have any luck trying to add drivers for Lenovo Thinkcentre e63z? You must be logged in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content A while back, I posted an article on building a SharePoint development environment in Hyper-V, which included a part on automating deployment of the host machine.

A matching network card driver was not found in this image After preparing our image with current patches and making the state as general-purpose as possible, we ran SysPrep with Generalise and OOBE, then Shut Down the machine. When it came time to deploy the image, we got in to the Windows PE setup splash, but no further than this error: WdsClient: An error occurred while starting networking: a matching network card driver was not found in this image. An Outdated KB As you will note in this knowledge base article which dominates search results for this error , the work-around is fairly detailed and laborious.

A much simpler solution After deleting these keys, I was back on track. Add Driver Package Select driver packages from an. In order to account for this in advance you can temporarily disable the image before doing any of this and then re-enable it afterwards. Do you have any issues installing Drivers with Win 7 Ent 32 o 64 bit? Thanks soooooo much scracthing my head with this one for hours till I ran into your article. Hope this helps!

Cheers, T. Mr Tristan Thanks for your prompt respond! Then right click again on the image from before and chose add driver packages to image: In order to find the driver packages you want, click on the Add button, and chose the attribute type and set it to driver group name and equal to.

Then, in the drop down box below, you can simply pick the driver group we created earlier and click add and ok. Once complete, you should be ready to go. Share this: Click to share on Twitter Opens in new window Click to print Opens in new window Click to email this to a friend Opens in new window. Like this: Like Loading More powershell uptime stuff. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

Email required Address never made public. Name required. At this point you've made a bunch of modifications to that task sequence. Too many - best to start fresh with a new task sequence. You also said you imported the drivers and then started moving them around.

Not Good. If you could just cut and paste drivers there would be no need for the import process. The import process is all about MDT knowing where stuff is. The only place to really worry about bitness is WinPE. I wouldn't get concerned about removing the x86 drivers from the import for this model. While the total control method will inject all drivers from the designated folder, Windows will only apply the ones of the correct bitness anyway.

Yeah, it's a few extra files - but for right now, skip the complexity. You can always come back and delete the wrong bitness stuff once you have it working. The goal of the total control method is to be able to use the same task sequence to deploy a given OS image to all the hardware in your outfit.

I understand that you really want to see results, like yesterday. Here's the deal: The way you have that inject step set up, it will not be hardware agnostic. On any other model, it will inject NO drivers because the task sequence variable does not equal the value you entered. Extract the cab to a temporary folder and import the drivers to the model folder underneath Windows 10 64 bit.

One quick point that often gets overlooked - after adding drivers, did you update the deployment share? That driver pack you mentioned is for Windows 10 only. You will need to add them to MDT so they will get injected into your boot image. See KevinHughes2 link on how to do so.

Import the WinPE drivers from his link into a folder in OOB drivers named winpe10 or similar you will need to create Create a selection group named WinPE 10 and point it to the previously created folder In Deployment share properties under WinPE tab for x64, use that selection group see my link. The following networking device did not have a driver installed.

I took out the x86 drivers from it though, and am still getting the same error. WinPE seems to be taken care of. Now it is just a matter of providing the correct Win10 NIC driver for that model.

Could you post a picture of the Out Of Box Drivers folder structure? I am using the highlighted x64 package. I imported the winpe 10 cap package and then split up the x64 and x86 drivers into their own folders. I did not create a x86 selection profile or import a MDT Build Lab x86 boot image into WDS, just want to provide as much info as possible in case something that looks irrelevant to me is actually relevant.

The link you gave me leads to error Also, would I be able to install drivers after OS but before the first reboot?