Privacy policy. Follow the steps in this article to deploy Microsoft Apps to client computers from a shared folder on your network by using the Office Deployment Tool ODT. Make sure your users have local admin privileges on their client devices. If that is not the case, then you should use your organization's standard deployment tools and processes to install Office. If you haven't already, complete the assessment and planning phases for your Office deployment.
This article is intended for administrators in enterprise environments working with hundreds or thousands of computers. If you want to install Office on a single device or small number of devices, we recommend reviewing Download and install or reinstall Microsoft or Office on a PC or Mac or Use the Office offline installer. The steps in this article are based on the following best practices, if you've chosen to deploy Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel:.
You can customize these options to match the requirements for your organization, including deploying to more than two groups, changing update channels, and deploying Visio and Project. For more details, see Customize your deployment. Because you're deploying Microsoft Apps from a local source, you have to create folders to store the Office installation files. You'll create one parent folder and two child folders, one for the pilot group, with the version of Office from Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel Preview , and one for the broad group, with version of Office from Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel.
In this article, we have just one shared folder on the network, but many organizations make the Office installation files available from multiple locations. Using multiple locations can help improve availability and minimize the effect on network bandwidth. For example, if some of your users are located in a branch office, you can create a shared folder in the branch office. Those users can then install Office from the local network.
For more information, see DFS Management. If you've already downloaded the ODT, make sure you have the latest version. You can copy a subset of the device drivers from an existing driver package.
First, create a new driver package. Then add the subset of device drivers to the new package, and then distribute the new package to a distribution point.
When you use task sequences to install drivers, create driver packages that contain less than device drivers. To create a driver package, you must have an empty network folder that's not used by another driver package.
In most cases, create a new folder before you start this procedure. In the Configuration Manager console, go to the Software Library workspace. Expand Operating Systems , and then select the Driver Packages node. Enter an optional Comment for the driver package.
Use this description to provide information about the contents or the purpose of the driver package. In the Path box, specify an empty source folder for the driver package. Each driver package must use a unique folder. This path is required as a network location. The site server account must have Full control permissions to the specified source folder.
If the Driver Packages node contains several packages, you can add folders to the node to separate the packages into logical groups. You can do additional actions to manage driver packages when you select one or more driver packages from the Driver Packages node.
Creates files that you can use to manually import content and its associated metadata. Use prestaged content when you have low network bandwidth between the site server and the distribution points where the driver package is stored.
Distributes the driver package to distribution points, distribution point groups, and distribution point groups that are associated with collections. Start the Export Driver Package Wizard to save associated drivers and content to a file. Use this process to move driver packages between hierarchies.
Start the Import Driver Package Wizard to create a driver package from a previously exported package. Starting in version , when you import an object in the Configuration Manager console, it now imports to the current folder. Previously, Configuration Manager always put imported objects in the root node. For more information about package access accounts, see Accounts used in Configuration Manager. Opens the Properties window.
Review and change the content and properties of the driver. For example, change the name and description of the driver, enable or disable it, and specify on which platforms it can run.
Driver packages have metadata fields for Manufacturer and Model. Use these fields to tag driver packages with information to assist in general housekeeping, or to identify old and duplicate drivers that you can delete.
On the General tab, select an existing value, or enter a string to create a new entry. They can also be used as search criteria. Starting in version , use these attributes to pre-cache content on a client.
For more information, see Configure pre-cache content. Updates the driver package on all the distribution points where the site stores it. This action copies only the content that has changed after the last time it was distributed. You can install drivers on destination computers without including them in the OS image that is deployed. Configuration Manager provides a driver catalog that contains references to all the drivers that you import into Configuration Manager.
The driver catalog is located in the Software Library workspace and consists of two nodes: Drivers and Driver Packages. The Drivers node lists all the drivers that you've imported into the driver catalog. Before you can use a driver when you deploy an OS, import it into the driver catalog. To better manage them, import only the drivers that you plan to install as part of your OS deployments.
Store multiple versions of drivers in the catalog to provide an easy way to upgrade existing drivers when hardware device requirements change on your network. But it has become much more frequent over the last few months and we've acknowledged that something has to be done at this point. We decided to upgrade to MDT and start fresh although we brought along our previous custom WIMs so that we didn't need to recreate them.
Upon importing the NEW "packages" from our current version of DriverPacks Solutions and generating boot images we started having issues with drivers causing crashes. When the boot image beings to load the WinPE environment we keep getting error messages about drivers iastor. We've tried several different methods to resolve these issues, but it has been unsuccessful. Basically what I'm looking for is some advise from other people who are in the same situation as we are as to where you download your drivers from.
We've discussed the option of downloading drivers for each and every model as they are needed, but decided this is counterproductive to what we're trying to accomplish, which is to spend as little hands-on time as possible with these reinstalls.
We have had minor issues with system drivers applying to a large number of systems that it shouldn't But that is normally pretty easy to track down. In addition, as with any external driver source outside of the manufacturer's website, make sure you run a complete virus scan against any drivers before they are added to your deployment share. Let me know if you have any questions for me as I am in the exact same situation you are, a repair shop!
If you are using OS Deployer add-on for Desktop Central , drivers are also collected from the computers where Desktop Central agent is installed. These drivers are also stored in the configured automatic collection driver repository. To ease the driver installation, you can also manually add a set of required drivers to a common network network share and add the share path as a manual driver collection. The applicable drivers from this repository will automatically be installed to the target computers right after OS deployment.
Steps to configure driver repository. The aforementioned strategies will come handy in collecting the drivers and storing them in the repository. Post OS deployment, the respective drivers required to boot the computer will automatically be installed.
Once the booting is done, the missing set of drivers will be scanned and reported to the central server. These missing drivers if available in the repository Both manual and automatic repositories , will be injected to the target computer automatically.
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