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Third-party catalog for drivers in SCCM
Hello,
Since the v3 catalog is available for a few months now i'm wordering if it is used succesfull. The test that i did/do with gave some strange results. I have noticed the following:
- Software and drivers show-up multiple times on a SCCM client allthough they seem to be exactly the same. Same version, same date etc. But still multiple times in a deployment package.
- Running the same ADR in SCCM every day (for testing) gives a different result everyday. As if the source at Dell is different everytime.
- Superseding software/driver versions does not seem to work. I've noticed multiple versions of the same driver/software on a cliënt.
Any advice would be helpfull
Martijn
version 1.8.5.1 installed but older version still trying to install
No superseding of software
Multiple versions of the same software
Multiple versions of the same software
b0bby_DK
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September 9th, 2020 10:00
Just to give an example - on one of the laptops I tested it on it had 10 drivers required after I sorted out duplicates and chose the newest drivers. 1 out 10 drivers installed successfully and got detected. The rest 9/10 is now stuck in a infinite loop because they either aren't really applicable or install fine - but there's no detection method for them.
b0bby_DK
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September 9th, 2020 10:00
Been testing DELL third party drivers with SCCM/MECM and my experience is:
- Using WSUS SCUP is an extremely slow way of deploying the updates
- Several "required" drivers aren't applicable to the model in question (like Thunderbolt firmware on a non-thunderbolt laptop) and will thus fail
- Patches that does succeed does 1 of 3 things:
1. Installs fine, gets detected and disappears from the Software Updates list (I have only seen BIOS updates do this)
2. Install fine according to the installer log (C:\ProgramData\Dell\UpdatePackage\Log) BUT will throw an error to Software Updates and thus prompt to be installed again in an infinite loop
3. Install fine, require reboot (most times more than one) then briefly show up as installed in Software Updates, but still report the driver as needed this starting an infinite loop as well
- Same drivers in many different versions (doesn't superseed old versions)
- Same drivers with many different names making it impossible to create an ADR to sort out the mess
My experience has been atrocious and will not recommend this product to anyone, and I genuinely wonder if anybody has had any positive experiences with this.