Hi,

I have a bunch of driver files which include 2 .INF files.

I have sucessfully used "Devcon.exe INSTALL" to install/update the
drivers, however Microsoft do not allow you to distribute DEVCON and I
have 1000s of PCs I need to update.

Any ideas? Any similar freeware?

Thanks,
Dennis Bareis

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> Hi,
>
> I have a bunch of driver files which include 2 .INF files.
>
> I have sucessfully used "Devcon.exe INSTALL" to install/update
> the drivers, however Microsoft do not allow you to distribute
> DEVCON and I have 1000s of PCs I need to update.

Just a comment in that if you have 1000s of PCs to update I don't
think that qualifies as re-distibution. After all, you are not
posting the DEVCON package on a public server accessible to eveyone.

If you are making something publically available and want to include
devcon.exe in your distribution, that would be prohibited as I
understand it.

IMO and IANAL

On 12 Aug 2005 21:26:25 -0700, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a bunch of driver files which include 2 .INF files.
>
>I have sucessfully used "Devcon.exe INSTALL" to install/update the
>drivers, however Microsoft do not allow you to distribute DEVCON and I
>have 1000s of PCs I need to update.
>
>Any ideas? Any similar freeware?

I agree with Mark. In addition, if you're running the installation
with an account that has network access then Devcon could be placed in
a share to be run by the script remotely without 'distribution'.
Clay Calvert
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Hi,

Thanks for these comments, thats pretty much what I thought although I
still don't like the idea of MS producing useful software but not
allowing you to use at your own risk).

The tool would be imbedded in an MSI, if the tool is effectively not
available to the user of the PC do you think this is "distribution"?

I will probably use DevCon.EXE but I found some interesting tools which
might also work in the "Device Drivers" forum at
"http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=101".

If you haven't looked at that sight before (as I haven't) you'd be
amazed at some of the command line/unattended information there.

Thanks again,
Dennis Bareis

"(E-Mail Removed)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for these comments, thats pretty much what I thought although I
> still don't like the idea of MS producing useful software but not
> allowing you to use at your own risk).
>
> The tool would be imbedded in an MSI, if the tool is effectively not
> available to the user of the PC do you think this is "distribution"?
>
> I will probably use DevCon.EXE but I found some interesting tools which
> might also work in the "Device Drivers" forum at
> "http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=101".
>
> If you haven't looked at that sight before (as I haven't) you'd be
> amazed at some of the command line/unattended information there.
>
> Thanks again,
> Dennis Bareis
>
>

There is a rundll command to install .inf. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q145810/