MDT: oob drivers not being injected

mdt-2010pxe-bootwdswindows 7

I'm trying to use MDT and WDS to image a machine.

I've got the image of the reference cpu via a vmware machine.

I tried running LiteTouch via PXE on the target machine. It gives me an error:

A connection to the deployment share (\share\deploymentShare$) could not be made. The following networking device did not have a driver installed. PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1692&SUBSYS_04001028&REV_01.

I check OOB and didn't see a matching driver. I grabbed the OEM disk and pulled the drivers off and imported them into OOB. In OOB, I can find the driver, and in details > supported pnp id's can see

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1692&SUBSYS_04001028

I updated the deployment share, both with optimize and completely regenerate boot images. I created a new task sequence. I proceed to reboot and run LiteTouch on the target to be met with the same error.

I also verified that this PNP ID is in DeploymentShare\Control\Drivers.xml

Isn't the point of OOB to have the drivers you need for the boxes you are deploying to?

Is there something else I'm missing?

Thanks.

Best Answer

When you regenerate the boot images in MDT, you must replace the existing boot images in WDS with the newly created images. The drivers are injected during the regeneration process, which is different than how it works with the install images.

More information about deploying Windows with MDT and WDS can be found on the Springboard Series pages on TechNet.