Skilling snack: Windows driver update management

You’re probably sick of hearing this but while I’m delighted to have the drivers, extensions/components and firmware updates, I feel a certain unease with the lack of metadata that comes with them. I don’t know which updates are associated with which models and of course, it would be great for a bit of blurb on the purpose or release notes.

I want to be able to click on any update and in the slide out, I want to see the associated models where relevant. That information must be available, otherwise you wouldn’t have the updates in the first place. That would be a good start.

Populating a release blurb might be more time consuming. Perhaps this is something the vendors could be responsible for? I don’t know if there’s some sort of designation or URL already included by the vendor which points to or contains the information I speak of. If it was already there, that would again make it easy for Intune to pull it in.

Another related issue is all the legacy updates coming through. It looks as though every past update comes through with no automatic superseding and without the metadata, I can’t even be sure that the updates are all for the same model. I’ve been relying entirely on the clients to only pull the latest updates that they need. There isn’t enough information for me to know what is what. So, I end up just approving them all.