Feature request… Add in a script to check for device driver update from MS.

[RomanST]

Feature request… Add in a script to check for device driver update from MS.

This would be great to just add in a bunch of machines and force a driver update from MS, especially with all the intel driver thing that came out. Most of the device drivers do not update with windows update for some reason and I suspect this would be useful by many folks.

Here is a PS script that claims it does it… but integrated into BatchPatch…

https://superuser.com/questions/1243011/how-to-automatically-update-all-devices-in-device-manager

[doug]

Roman – You can include drivers in BP under ‘Tools > Settings > Windows Update > Search Preferences > Search for *all* driver updates’

However, your mileage may vary for actually having success with installation of drivers through Windows Update. We generally don’t recommend using this option anymore. Years ago they could be installed successfully, but with changes to the OS that Microsoft has made over the years, you will now find in the newer versions of Windows that the drivers won’t download/install successfully in some/many/most cases even though in the older versions of Windows they will work just fine. The same would be true for the script you linked to or for any other method that gets drivers directly from Windows Update because under the hood they are all calling the same Windows API methods.

-Doug

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