Deployment and Imaging Group

We have recently started using DS 7.1 for imaing new machines with Windows 7, which is working fine, driver injection at present is a script which just copied all drivers we know are missing for the different motherboards / laptops that we have using W7 in to a C:\drivers folder, which is then picked up during the mini-setup phase.

For Windows XP we have hit a brick wall though, as we cannot use the token replacement which we used on 6.9, does anyone have a sure fire way to replicate the below script which we used to run after putting the image on the machine? (Taken the majority of script out just to show how it works for one laptop)

REM WinPE Copying Required Drivers
@echo off
.\Rdeploy\windows\firm.exe delete prod:aclient.cfg

echo Model Number is %#!computer@model_num% and Product Name is %#!computer@prod_name%

if "%#!computer@prod_name%"=="satellite pro a100" goto A120

goto Exit

:A120
echo Satellite Pro A120
.\Rdeploy\windows\firm.exe -recurse copy .\models\A120 prod:\
goto Exit

Is DeployAnywhere good enough to do this job, which would mean uploading drivers for about 15-20 different models of PC and laptop to the database, or shall we try something different? Putting all the drivers on to the image isn't an option as there are far too many and it would bloat the image.

We want to start using 7.1 for all imaging but this problem means that currently we need to use 6.9 still for XP imaging.

You could use DeployAnywhere for critical and non-critical drivers.  Alternatively, you could use a WMI query to select the model name, then include the variable in the path to your driver share.  For this to work in your above example, the below script should return 'A120' as strName.  If it returns 'Satellite Pro A120', then name your folder 'Satellite Pro A120,' because it's going to use this exact value to find the path, since we don't have conditions.  Whether you use FIRM here or xcopy or something else, it should work just the same -- copy just the drivers for this model to the local drive.  Then, as you mentioned, you'll reference this from your mini setup.

'On Error Resume Next
dim strName, strComputer, objWMIService, colItems, fso, objShell, objFolder, colSubfolders

strComputer = "."

Set fso = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystemProduct",,48)
' Get model number of system board from the Win32_ComputerSystemProduct Name via WMI
For Each objItem in colItems
  strName = objItem.Name
  Wscript.Echo strName
Next

This is a simple script to detect a PC or Laptop's model through WMI in a vbs file, then pass this back to the command prompt and delete the temporary VBS file, the second part of the script then checks the model name, and copies the required drivers to C:\drivers, for this to work you need to have pointed your sysprep file to C:\drivers, you also need a map drive script to run before this in order to map a drive to the deployment server, in order to run firm.exe, and another drive if required to your driver share (mapped as k: and j: in this example).

This is for Windows XP but the same applies for Windows 7.

REM WinPE Copying Required Drivers
REM Windows XP 32bit Systems
@echo off

setlocal
set tmpfile=K:\%random%.vbs
echo Set CSset = GetObject("winmgmts:")._ >%tmpfile%
echo InstancesOf("Win32_ComputerSystem") >>%tmpfile%
echo For Each CS In CSset >>%tmpfile%
echo WScript.Echo CS.Model >>%tmpfile%
echo Next >>%tmpfile%

for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (
'cscript.exe //Nologo %tmpfile%') do set model=%%a

del %tmpfile%

echo Model Number is %model%

if "%model%"=="satellite pro a120" goto A120

:A120
echo Satellite Pro A120
"J:\Task Handler\rdeploy\firm.exe" -recurse copy K:\WindowsXP\A120 prod:\
goto Exit

::HAL
echo HALS required
"J:\Task Handler\rdeploy\firm.exe" -recurse copy K:\WindowsXP\HALS\acpi prod:\Windows\System32
goto Exit

:Exit

I hope this helps you out if you were stuck on driver injection as we were, it's a far quicker solution than DA at this point in time and allows you to include all drivers.

REM WinPE Copying Required Drivers
REM Windows XP Systems
@echo off

FOR /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%G IN ('WMIC computersystem get model /format:VALUE') DO SET Model=%%G

ECHO Model: %Model%

"J:\Task Handler\rdeploy\firm.exe" -recurse copy chr(34)K:\WindowsXP\%Model%chr(34) prod:\

goto Exit

:Exit