1. FMSCUG 1708

2. Housekeeping New Logo – Thoughts? Topic Ideas Office365
Free SCCM Training

3. Giveaway The Pester Book by Adam Bertram
We’ll draw names at the end, don’t let me forget!

4. ConfigMgr/Windows News
SCCM v1706 is out!
Script Support
Collapsible Task Sequences
Built-in Surface Driver Updates
Windows 10 v1703 declared “Widely Available”
3 more months of support for v1511
Windows 10 v1709 nearing completion

5. Or how to make the best out of a terrible situation
Dealing with Drivers
Or how to make the best out of a terrible situation

6. Intro Scott Erickson Senior Systems Engineer - SCCM
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
SCCM, Endpoint Management
Deployallthethings.com
@ScottEricksonJr

7. Driver Methodologies Lots of ways to solve this problem
Use the Auto Apply Drivers action
Driver packages
Regular Packages
Scipted (FMSCUG driver installer)
Loose drivers & DISM
Others???

8. There is no right way to do drivers….
But there is a wrong way.

9. Demo

10. What we want Total Control over what drivers get installed
No editing of Task Sequences when a new device model comes in
No driver imports
Minimal steps in the Task Sequence

11. The “Holy Grail” Method
whatever-you-want-to-call-it/
The Solution
Regular Packages with content containing all the drivers for a model
An XML export of all packages
A Powershell script ran in your Task Sequence
Clever use of an override-able variable
A Status Filter Rule to tie it all together

12. Demo

13. Application Packaging with the PowerShell App Deploy Toolkit
SCCM & PSADT
Application Packaging with the PowerShell App Deploy Toolkit

14. Intro Evan Bittle Endpoint Administrator
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
Focus on OSD, MDT, SCCM
@Bittletime
This is just a basic overview. There’s much more depth to PSADT than what I’ll show here.
Ask questions, start a conversation.

15. PSADT – What is it?
“The PowerShell App Deploy Toolkit is a set of functions to perform common application deployment tasks and to interact with the user during a deployment. It simplifies the complex scripting challenges of deploying applications in the enterprise, provides a consistent deployment experience and improves installation success rates.”
“Can be used to replace other script wrappers with one versatile, re-usable and extensible tool.”
All of this information and more is available in the PSADT Admin Guide.

16. PSADT – Where do you get it?
Step 1: Google.
Step 2: Download.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
Check out this sweet PowerPoint.
Package some apps!

17. PSADT Contents Keep a copy of these as an unmodified “template”.
Each app you package will include these files and folders.

18. PSADT Contents
Files folder stores any EXE, MSI, REG, Response Files, etc.; any files you need to install an application.
Deploy-Application.exe executes the PSADT processes.
Deploy-Application.ps1 is where the magic happens.

19. Deploy-Application.ps1
Customizable script you modify to install the application.
Uses normal PowerShell coding but with added features.
Looks worse than it is.

20. Deploy-Application.ps1 - Sections
Pre-Installation
Installation
Post-Installation
Pre-Uninstallation
Uninstallation
Post-Uninstallation

21. e.g. Scripting Install Find the Install section. Write in your code.
You can test you’re your script and the entire install process locally by running Deploy-Application.exe as Admin.

22. PSADT unique functions and variables
Available and detailed in the Admin Guide.

23. Deploying the App in SCCM
Create an application like normal.
Set the install:
Deploy-Application.exe
Uninstall:
Deploy-Application.exe /Uninstall