Driver management has changed during the last year as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo have all made one big systems management driver pack available. Dell has had this for a long time but now HP and Lenovo do to. This is great news for us deployment geeks. I’m thanking Santa for this, since it was on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Drivers’
Managing Drivers in Configuration Manager 2012
Posted: 30th September 2012 by Mats Hellman in ConfigMgr, Deployment, Systems Center, Windows 7Tags: Driver management, Driver packages, Drivers, WMI
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Deploy Lenovo drivers with Configuration Manager
Posted: 5th May 2012 by Mats Hellman in ConfigMgr, Deployment, Systems Center, Windows, Windows 7Tags: Configuration Manager, Deployment, Drivers, Lenovo, OSD
The biggest pain of any Configuration Manager administrator is usually managing drivers for all the different systems, unless you use Dell systems and their brilliant .CABs. Calm down I know HP started using the same type of packaging a while back Anyway, managing and successfully deploying drivers can be a pain in your backside. At [...]
Are 64-bit operating systems ready for the desktop?
Posted: 27th April 2009 by Mats Hellman in Linux, WindowsTags: 64-bit, Drivers, Linux, Windows Vista
I’ve been asking myself this for a while now. 64-bit has been a standard for several years now and still computers are sold with 32-bit operating systems. Why is this? The only reliable 64-bit OS I’ve used was my MacBook Pro which I sold. It worked and I never really had any driver issues with [...]
Finding drivers for unrecognized hardware in a Windows system
Posted: 24th March 2009 by Mats Hellman in WindowsTags: Drivers, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Sometimes when you finish installing your Windows operating system you are missing drivers. The easy ones like chipset,network and graphics are easy to find, but what about the rest? Below is a screenshot of the details on the Intel Gigabit network card. Nothing special there, it’s installed and it’s working fine. If Windows wouldn’t be [...]
