I have been adding a lot of different drivers to our WDS server since my company has been deploying a ton of different hardware recently. Instead of manually downloading and picking through drivers to find the right ones, I would like to just use those all-inclusive driver packs (from the manufacturer, of course).
When I find myself about to add these large driver packs to my WDS server, they can be upwards of 700-800 INF files to load.
My question is, obvious organizational disadvantages aside, is there a downside to adding all of those drivers? I am guessing many of those drivers won't even be used when deploying an image, so are they hurting anything?
I've searched on this site, superuser, google, etc. and I have found plenty on the actual process of doing this, but not really much on best practices. Any insight is appreciated!
Best Answer
I think install time goes up as all the drivers have to be checked for relevance, but I would consider this to be a minhor inconvenience compared to the ability for drivers to JUST WORK.