Installing Device Drivers as Applications

Device drivers that are packaged as applications and that you cannot extract to a folder containing an .inf file, in addition to driver files, should be added to the Deployment Workbench as an application for installation during the deployment process.

Applications can be specified as a task sequence step or specified in CustomSettings.ini; however, device driver applications should be installed only when the task sequence is run on a computer with the devices. To ensure this, run the task sequence step for deploying the relevant device driver applications as a conditional task sequence step. The conditional criteria can be specified for running the task sequence step using WMI queries for the device on the target computer.