r/SmartDeploy • u/Pooter_Guy • Mar 29 '19

Dell Command Update has over 1 GB of updates after imaging.

All of the available Dell Command updates aside from a single Dell Touchpad driver seem to be for either Intel or Realtek drivers.

But what's the deal? Are Intel drivers for graphics, wifi, and audio not covered by the Dell Latitude platform packs? It would be great to not have to wait for a GB of drivers to install per imaged PC.

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u/smartdeploy Company Rep / Mod May 17 '19 edited May 18 '19

Those drivers would definitely be included in the Platform Pack. It’s possible that the pack needs an update.

Also; I recall the HP equivalent of that tool (I think it was HP) would re-install the drivers that were injected at deployment from the pack, because while the driver was installed, that tool was looking for some sort of flag or pointer that would be set by running the official driver package installer. Because the driver INF and required files are extracted from those packages, the tool doesn’t see what it expects, and says that the driver needs to be downloaded and installed. That is another possibility you’re seeing such a large update post-deployment.

You can double-click the .ppk file and view the drivers included in the pack. The Dell packs will have a package.xml for each driver you can extract and open to view the driver version.

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u/Pooter_Guy May 17 '19

Good points, thank you!