Importing SCCM drivers in bulk
This is taken from my TechNet gallery here: https://goo.gl/n1QT89
When you’re tasked with something like a Windows 10 upgrade, you’ll find yourself spending lots of time downloading and importing SCCM drivers. While this script won’t go out and download them for you (like the Dell and HP Driver Import tools I’ve seen out there), it manufacturer, model, and architecture agnostic, you don’t get caught up trying to negotiate your way past your firewall and proxy teams, and it runs in a bit under 50 lines of code (including comments). Rather than pasting in the entire thing, I’ll do a screenshot and walk through from there.
For this script to work, there’s some groundwork required on your part. When you download the drivers, they need to be downloaded into a folder that has whatever name you want for your driver package later. If you’re like me, you’re already doing this as you download. If I need drivers for an HP Z230 desktop, the folder they’re saved in is already called “HP Z230 Windows 10 x64” or something similar so I can find them later. The way this script works, whatever your folders’ names are is what names your driver packages will end up with.
Aside from that, all you need to do is plug in the path to the file share that has all your make/model folders in the root, as well as the location where you want to store your driver packages.
Something you will notice in this script is that I bounce between my C: drive and my SCCM drive. This is because UNC paths don’t always work as expected when you’re on the SCCM drive, and SCCM cmdlets don’t play nice running from anything other than the SCCM drive. To guarantee they both work when needed, I just switch between locations, and it’s no big deal.
This script can take a little while to run, but it will give you feedback as it goes, and it doesn’t lock you out of the SCCM GUI while it runs.
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