Installing Device Drivers Using the Out-of-Box Drivers Method

You can import device driver packages that include an .inf file to the Deployment Workbench and install them automatically as part of the deployment process. To implement this type of device driver deployment, first add the device driver to the Deployment Workbench.

To add the device driver to the Deployment Workbench

1. Download the device drivers required for the hardware types to be deployed, and extract the device driver package to a temporary location.

2. Click Start, and then point to All Programs. Point to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and then click Deployment Workbench.

3. In the Deployment Workbench console tree, go to Deployment Workbench/Deployment Shares/deployment_share/Out-of-Box Drivers (where deployment_share is the name of the deployment share to configure).

4. In the Actions pane, click Import Drivers.

The Import Device Driver Wizard starts.

5. On the Specify Directory page, in the Drive source directory section, click Browse to go to the folder that contains the new device drivers, and then click Next.

Note The New Device Driver Wizard will search all subdirectories of the driver source directory; therefore, if there are multiple drivers to install, extract them into folders within the same root directory, and then set the driver source directory as the root directory that holds all of the driver source folders.

6. On the Summary page, verify that the settings are correct, and then click Next to import the drivers into the Deployment Workbench.

7. On the Confirmation page, click Finish.

If the device drivers contain boot-critical drivers such as mass storage or network class drivers, the deployment share must next be updated to generate a new LiteTouch_x86 and LiteTouch_x64 boot environment that contains the new drivers.

To add device drivers to the Lite Touch Windows PE images

1. Click Start, and then point to All Programs. Point to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and then click Deployment Workbench.

2. In the Deployment Workbench console tree, go to Deployment Workbench/Deployment Shares/deployment_share (where deployment_share is the name of the deployment share to configure).

3. In the Actions pane, click Update Deployment Share.

The Update Deployment Share Wizard starts.

4. On the Options page, select the desired options for updating the deployment share, and then click Next.

5. On the Summary page, verify that the details are correct, and then click Next.

6. On the Confirmation page, click Finish.