Yesterday i did a demo of a Task Sequence I use to extract drivers from a computer that already have all drivers correctly installed, could be a system that I need to reinstall, or a new machine with fairly new drivers installed. The Task Sequence basically grabs information from the computer, such as Operating System, Architecture and Model or Modelalias, grabs the drivers and copy them to the deployment share. I can then import the drivers to a ConfigMgr package or use them in LiteTouch for deployment.

The script is fairly simple and easy to change to fit in your environment.

The Task Sequence

It contains 3 steps, a gather step to get the inventory of the machine correctly, a set finish action to avoid reboot if your are using finish action in customsettings.ini and the application that grabs the drivers. Since it is a application this task sequence works only when Windows is running, not in WinPE.

The Task Sequence.

The Application

The Script runs as an application, so you need to download the script to a folder and then import it as an application with following settings:

PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File ExportDrivers.ps1

The Extract Drivers Application in Deployment Workbench.

The Script

The PowerShell script is a generic script I use a s “wrapper”, so it does have functions that is not really needed in this scenario, so it is possible to make it shorter if you for any reason want that. The script detects if it has been invoked from a task sequence or not, if it has, it will create a path based on deployment root, Operating System, Architecture and ModelAlias (If you don’t use ModelAlias UserExit, start to do that or change to Model in the script), otherwise it will export the drivers to C:\ExportedDrivers

The active part of the script looks like this:

The active part of the script.

Note that it will delete all drivers that begins with PRN. That is printer drivers and I usually do not want them.

ExportDrivers.ps1

<#
 Install Wrapper 1.0
 Author: Mikael Nystrom
 http://www.deploymentbunny.com 
#>
 
Function Invoke-Exe{
    [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]
 
    param(
        [parameter(mandatory=$true,position=0)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string]
        $Executable,
 
        [parameter(mandatory=$false,position=1)]
        [string]
        $Arguments
    )
 
    if($Arguments -eq "")
    {
        Write-Verbose "Running $ReturnFromEXE = Start-Process -FilePath $Executable -ArgumentList $Arguments -NoNewWindow -Wait -Passthru"
        $ReturnFromEXE = Start-Process -FilePath $Executable -NoNewWindow -Wait -Passthru
    }else{
        Write-Verbose "Running $ReturnFromEXE = Start-Process -FilePath $Executable -ArgumentList $Arguments -NoNewWindow -Wait -Passthru"
        $ReturnFromEXE = Start-Process -FilePath $Executable -ArgumentList $Arguments -NoNewWindow -Wait -Passthru
    }
    Write-Verbose "Returncode is $($ReturnFromEXE.ExitCode)"
    Return $ReturnFromEXE.ExitCode
}
Function Get-OSVersion([ref]$OSv){
    $OS = Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem
    Switch -Regex ($OS.Version)
    {
    "6.1"
        {If($OS.ProductType -eq 1)
            {$OSv.value = "Windows 7 SP1"}
                Else
            {$OSv.value = "Windows Server 2008 R2"}
        }
    "6.2"
        {If($OS.ProductType -eq 1)
            {$OSv.value = "Windows 8"}
                Else
            {$OSv.value = "Windows Server 2012"}
        }
    "6.3"
        {If($OS.ProductType -eq 1)
            {$OSv.value = "Windows 8.1"}
                Else
            {$OSv.value = "Windows Server 2012 R2"}
        }
    "10."
        {If($OS.ProductType -eq 1)
            {$OSv.value = "Windows 10"}
                Else
            {$OSv.value = "Windows Server 2016"}
        }
    DEFAULT { "Version not listed" }
    } 
}
Function Import-SMSTSENV{
    try
    {
        $tsenv = New-Object -COMObject Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment
        Write-Output "$ScriptName - tsenv is $tsenv "
        $MDTIntegration = "YES"
         
        #$tsenv.GetVariables() | % { Write-Output "$ScriptName - $_ = $($tsenv.Value($_))" }
    }
    catch
    {
        Write-Output "$ScriptName - Unable to load Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment"
        Write-Output "$ScriptName - Running in standalonemode"
        $MDTIntegration = "NO"
    }
    Finally
    {
    if ($MDTIntegration -eq "YES"){
        $Logpath = $tsenv.Value("LogPath")
        $LogFile = $Logpath + "\" + "$ScriptName.log"
 
    }
    Else{
        $Logpath = $env:TEMP
        $LogFile = $Logpath + "\" + "$ScriptName.txt"
    }
    }
}
Function Start-Logging{
    start-transcript -path $LogFile -Force
}
Function Stop-Logging{
    Stop-Transcript
}
 
# Set Vars
$SCRIPTDIR = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
$SCRIPTNAME = split-path -leaf $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
$SOURCEROOT = "$SCRIPTDIR\Source"
$LANG = (Get-Culture).Name
$OSV = $Null
$ARCHITECTURE = $env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
 
#Try to Import SMSTSEnv
. Import-SMSTSENV
 
#Start Transcript Logging
. Start-Logging
 
#Detect current OS Version
. Get-OSVersion -osv ([ref]$osv) 
 
#Output base info
Write-Output ""
Write-Output "$ScriptName - ScriptDir: $ScriptDir"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - SourceRoot: $SOURCEROOT"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - ScriptName: $ScriptName"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - OS Name: $OSV"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - OS Architecture: $ARCHITECTURE"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - Current Culture: $LANG"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - Integration with MDT(LTI/ZTI): $MDTIntegration"
Write-Output "$ScriptName - Log: $LogFile"
 
if($MDTIntegration -eq "YES"){
    $RootFolder = $tsenv.Value("Deployroot")
    $Arch = $tsenv.Value("Architecture")
    $Model = $tsenv.Value("ModelAlias")
    $Path = $RootFolder + "\Drivers\" + $OSV + "\" + $Arch + "\" + $Model
}
else{
    $Path = "C:\ExportedDrivers"
}

Write-Output "$ScriptName - Driver export path: $Path"

#Export Drivers
Export-WindowsDriver -Destination $Path -Online -Verbose

#Get Printer Drivers
Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter PRN* -Directory | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse

. Stop-Logging

/mike