Hi,

I work at a University and help look after creating and deploying images in
student ICT labs. We have windows XP installed on roughly 600 machines. This
particular problem applies to about 90 of those machines for which a unique
ICT image has been created with norton ghost.

As a part of an introductory programming course, the students use a lego
tower usb device (robolab 2.9).
Whenever a student plug's the device in, a "Found New Hardware" wizard
appears and they must locate and install the device base on the lectures
instructions. Because deepfreeze is installed, this must be done each time a
student logs into the machine. My question is how can this be avoided?

I have tried long-winded solutions, like creating a before and after
snapshot with symantec ai, and creating an .exe package to deploy the
differences, which is executed by a vb script as part of sysprep. This
didn't work, I'm guessing because of some unique identifier each machine uses
to reference usb devices.

The relevant drivers are pointed to in the sysprep.inf emPnPDriversPath and
the robolab software is actually installed on the image, however, after it is
syspreped and deployed, my old friend the "Found New Hardware" wizard appears.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you require additional
information, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,

Stigward

You can use dpinst to pre-install device drivers in XP.... it is part
of the driver install frameworks (DIFx)

Driver Package Installer (DPInst)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790308.aspx

Regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup / Deployment
http://www.deployvista.com


On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:52:00 -0800, Stigward
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>I work at a University and help look after creating and deploying images in
>student ICT labs. We have windows XP installed on roughly 600 machines. This
>particular problem applies to about 90 of those machines for which a unique
>ICT image has been created with norton ghost.
>
>As a part of an introductory programming course, the students use a lego
>tower usb device (robolab 2.9).
>Whenever a student plug's the device in, a "Found New Hardware" wizard
>appears and they must locate and install the device base on the lectures
>instructions. Because deepfreeze is installed, this must be done each time a
>student logs into the machine. My question is how can this be avoided?
>
>I have tried long-winded solutions, like creating a before and after
>snapshot with symantec ai, and creating an .exe package to deploy the
>differences, which is executed by a vb script as part of sysprep. This
>didn't work, I'm guessing because of some unique identifier each machine uses
>to reference usb devices.
>
>The relevant drivers are pointed to in the sysprep.inf emPnPDriversPath and
>the robolab software is actually installed on the image, however, after it is
>syspreped and deployed, my old friend the "Found New Hardware" wizard appears.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you require additional
>information, please don't hesitate to contact me.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Stigward

Thank-you Johan. I'll give it a go.

Regards,

Stigward

"Johan Arwidmark" wrote:

> You can use dpinst to pre-install device drivers in XP.... it is part
> of the driver install frameworks (DIFx)
>
> Driver Package Installer (DPInst)
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790308.aspx
>
> Regards
>
> Johan Arwidmark
> Microsoft MVP - Setup / Deployment
> http://www.deployvista.com
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:52:00 -0800, Stigward
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >I work at a University and help look after creating and deploying images in
> >student ICT labs. We have windows XP installed on roughly 600 machines. This
> >particular problem applies to about 90 of those machines for which a unique
> >ICT image has been created with norton ghost.
> >
> >As a part of an introductory programming course, the students use a lego
> >tower usb device (robolab 2.9).
> >Whenever a student plug's the device in, a "Found New Hardware" wizard
> >appears and they must locate and install the device base on the lectures
> >instructions. Because deepfreeze is installed, this must be done each time a
> >student logs into the machine. My question is how can this be avoided?
> >
> >I have tried long-winded solutions, like creating a before and after
> >snapshot with symantec ai, and creating an .exe package to deploy the
> >differences, which is executed by a vb script as part of sysprep. This
> >didn't work, I'm guessing because of some unique identifier each machine uses
> >to reference usb devices.
> >
> >The relevant drivers are pointed to in the sysprep.inf emPnPDriversPath and
> >the robolab software is actually installed on the image, however, after it is
> >syspreped and deployed, my old friend the "Found New Hardware" wizard appears.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you require additional
> >information, please don't hesitate to contact me.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >Stigward
>