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EricOhlin
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Jan 20, 2021

Driver Management: What does Microsoft recommend?

We're looking forward to Windows 10 20H2; however, SafeGuard IDs hold up most of our fleet. The blocks are related to outdated drivers on Windows 10 clients. What does Microsoft recommend to combat t...
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Dave_Backman
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Jan 21, 2021

EricOhlin was just looking through the CSEO (MS IT) Windows 10 deployment deck and do not see any references to their approach to managing this age old challenge for most IT Pro's.  Let me reach out to them and get you the answer to how we manage these internally.  Stay tuned!

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    EricOhlin
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 21, 2021

    Dave_Backman SteveThomas 

     

    Thank you both for the response. I'm familiar with Update Compliance and Safeguard Holds. We're aware of which holds are applied to us (mostly because of outdated drivers.) My question is how to best resolve these holds, which will require a solution to my original question. Enterprises are in need of a method to update aging drivers across large fleets with many models of clients.

     

    I see that SusanBradleyGeek asked a similar question in regards to the Conexant driver. We're in the same boat. We have 1000's of client's on old driver versions, they can't upgrade to 20H2 and time is running out on 1809. 

     

    Thank you, 

    Eric O

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