The Driver Automation Tool is a GUI developed in PowerShell which provides full automation of BIOS and driver downloads, extraction, packaging and distribution with Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo & Microsoft client hardware.
The intuitive GUI provides you with a full list of models from the supported manufacturer, allowing you to select one or many models, it also will detect Dell and Lenovo models matched against the WMI models known to ConfigMgr.
How does it work
When the tool is opened, you have the option to select your manufacturer and OS of choice. When you click on the Find Models button, the tool initiates a download of XML content from the selected manufacturer, reads in the XML and displays a full list of models for selection. Clicking on the Add to Import List adds each of these models for processing and once you click on the Start Download and Import Process button the tool starts the full process to automatically download and package the content.
Intune Support
In the latest build (V10), support for Intune packages has been added. This allows the admin to create both BIOS and Driver packages, deployed as a Win32 application, with a requirement script and assignment filter options to target specific models managed through Intune in the same way you would with Configuration Manager.
This allows you to deploy the OEM “SCCM” or latest driver package, depending on selection, and also include custom drivers within the packaged WIM.
Custom packages
For those manufacturers who do not provide direct model XML feeds, you can also use the tool to create custom driver packages based on the same naming schema. This is important when it comes to combining the use of this tool with our Modern Driver & BIOS Management solutions (see our solutions section).
The Driver Automation Tool provides full model listings from the following manufacturers: Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo & Microsoft.
Note: Model listings with the exception of Microsoft are provided by the manufactures in their XML feeds, so models will vary depending on the current support level for each model.
CONFIGMGR
- Site server selection
- Automatic site code discovery
- Distribution point and distribution point group selection
- Binary differential replication
- Distribution priority
- Clean up of unused drivers
- Removal of superseded driver packages
- Removal of source download packages
- Driver & BIOS piloting
- Driver & BIOS deployment state management (production, pilot, retired)
Intune
- Creation of Win32 Apps with Driver or BIOS pacakge content
- Toast based notifications for installs
- Creation of Assignment Filters for targeted deployments
- Bring your own code signing for PowerShell scripts used in the deployment
- Reporting
- Assignment of packages direct in the UI
Comprehensive documentation is available on the tool’s own standalone site and the GitHub repo;
