powershell Script to install ,update, remove device drivers.

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• Proposed as answer by Bill_StewartModerator Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:46 PM
• Marked as answer by IamMredMicrosoft employee, Owner Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:20 AM

Hi,

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Bill

• Proposed as answer by Bill_StewartModerator Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:46 PM
• Marked as answer by IamMredMicrosoft employee, Owner Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:20 AM

• Edited by MecWolf Friday, November 08, 2013 10:41 PM

• Edited by MecWolf Friday, November 08, 2013 10:41 PM

Sorry you found this unhelpful.

Ultimately this is about fairness: If you want others to put forth effort into answering your question, you need to put forth some effort in asking a decent question.

This is a scripting forum where we answer scripting questions. It isn't a script-on-demand forum.

That said: If you want help, please start a new question and demonstrate effort in your question (here's what I searched for, here's what didn't work, here is my script, here are the errors I'm getting, etc.).

Bill

This is a really old thread I know, but I too need an answer for the original question. I have searched a LOT for this particular question.

In fact, for uninstalling and installing drivers on any network device there doesn't seem to be a way to do it using powershell. All I could find is Remove-PrinterDriver on MSDN, which is obviously just for printer drivers.

Get-NetAdapter commandlets lets you change/configure the network interface but does not give any option to completely uninstall/install a new/old driver.

pnputil works but all it does is remove the oem[x].inf driver package rather than actually installing/uninstalling the binded driver on the network adapter.

Maybe I'm missing something, could you or someone else help?

Thanks!

This is a really old thread I know, but I too need an answer for the original question. I have searched a LOT for this particular question.

In fact, for uninstalling and installing drivers on any network device there doesn't seem to be a way to do it using powershell. All I could find is Remove-PrinterDriver on MSDN, which is obviously just for printer drivers.

Get-NetAdapter commandlets lets you change/configure the network interface but does not give any option to completely uninstall/install a new/old driver.

pnputil works but all it does is remove the oem[x].inf driver package rather than actually installing/uninstalling the binded driver on the network adapter.

Maybe I'm missing something, could you or someone else help?

Thanks!

You are asking deployment and configuration questions in a scripting forum.  You will not find an answer.  Windows installs drivers automatically for most hardware when it is connected.

A little time with a search can get many things.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/wincat/archive/2012/09/06/device-management-powershell-cmdlets-sample-an-introduction.aspx

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us