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Will Intune driver management be tied to the drivers as recommended by the vendor of the PC, or the vendor of the hardware within the PC.
e.g. Microsoft Surface Laptop 3's have an approved Intel AX201 Wifi driver of 22.80 within the latest MS driver bundle, but Intel have version 22.220 available for the exact same Wifi card. You can download and install the 22.220 driver direct from Intel and apply it to the Surface Laptop 3 with a Win32 app with no issues but I'm unclear on what driver version Intune would offer up and let you deploy via the driver feature in this example.
David_Guyer
Microsoft
MicrosoftA very good question.
The answer is in the targeting authoring for the drivers. A general driver, say from Intel, will typically have Hardware ID targeting, or HID. A more specific version, say by a device manufacturer like Lenovo will target with a more specific CHID. So, a device with an HID driver installed can install an update that is HID or CHID targeted, but once the device gets the CHID target then it can only get updated via a CHID targeted driver update to avoid installing a more general version that may be not be fully functional.
More details are in this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/dashboard/using-chids
HTH
- Thanks for that - it would be handy if there was an override option to show multiple choices where there were matches, e.g. in the Surface example the only driver for the AX201 card that shows would be 22.80 as that's the lateset in the driver pack, but if you tick a box (and accept a warning) it shows you matching generic drivers too, which in this case would be 22.230 as that's the latest available from Intel for the same card.
- David_GuyerInteresting idea. Something we can take a look at. There's some tricky stuff here in overriding the update offering info that we'll have to work through, so it could take a bit or be something we couldn't do... but if we can, I can see several scenarios this idea would help out with.