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Drivers installed via DISM breaking after Windows update.
I'm currently trying to make a custom Windows 11 image to be deployed in our organisation and as such I'm trying to merge the required drivers for our hardware into the install image in order to reduce the required deployment time, this initially works perfectly fine and all hardware works without issue immediately after installation, that is until Windows installs updates...
The updates do not fail and device manager even reports that the hardware is correctly detected and claims that it's "working" even though it is not (e.g. WiFi is completely absent from the taskbar and the system settings).
The exact same drivers (and I mean EXACT same, same checksum, etc...) do not have this issue when installed after the main Windows installation, ONLY when installed via DISM.
Below is a shortened snippet of my image creation script which demonstrates how I am adding the drivers to the Windows install image.
dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:${InstallDrive}:\sources\install.wim /MountDir:C:\Offline /Name:"Windows 11 Pro"
dism /Image:C:\Offline /Add-Driver /Driver:"${DriverFolder}\WiFi\Intel-BE201-BE200-AX211\1550-1650\Netwtw08.INF"
dism /Image:C:\Offline /Add-Driver /Driver:"${DriverFolder}\WiFi\Intel-BE201-BE200-AX211\1550-1650\Netwtw6e.INF"
dism /Image:C:\Offline /Add-Driver /Driver:"${DriverFolder}\WiFi\Intel-BE201-BE200-AX211\PIE\PieComponent.INF"
dism /Image:C:\Offline /Add-Driver /Driver:"${DriverFolder}\WiFi\Intel-BE201-BE200-AX211\PIE\PieExtension.INF"
dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\Offline /Commit1 Reply
- bugzBrass Contributor
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/add-and-remove-drivers-to-an-offline-windows-image?view=windows-11