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John_Dahl
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2020

Windows Servicing Model

In a large corporate environment, do you believe it is advisable to update the workstations drivers and bios before updating to new version of Windows 10?  ie 1803 to 1909
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gwblok
Iron Contributor
Apr 30, 2020

John_Dahl 

Hey John, I'm in the camp where you'd want to update your Firmware before an upgrade. (But on average, keeping your environment constantly updated.  Ideally not coupled with the upgrade itself, but sometime before the upgrade.

You'd slip in the vendor tested driver pack during IPU

We're planning to leverage Setup Based Drivers during the upgrade as well, but it would be a "Sub Task Sequence" that we'd also be able to update and level set drivers whenever we need (Security Vulnerabilities, Stability issues, etc).  We'd use this same "Module" to apply these setup based driver installers in OSD, IPU and Live Production machines.  Goal is to have entire environment always consistent, patched, and stable.

Of course, this all goes with extensive testing on each platform before deployment.

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