Dell driver CABs, Dell biz client driver cab os deployment using sccm dcip

1. Dell Client Operating System
Deployment using Driver CAB

2. Agenda
• Why Dell Cabs?
• Introduction to driver cabs
• Creating OS image
• Importing *Driver Cab
• Injecting Winpe drivers
• Creating task sequence
• OS Deployment
*Driver cab is also referred as Dell Command | Deploy Driver Pack

3. Why Dell Cabs?
• Administration of large dell enterprise requires consistent
methods for managing the diverse network clients.
• IT departments typically manage a heterogeneous mix of
decentralized client hardware and various software
applications.
• It’s a pain to install os and required drivers/applications
on large number of clients .

4. Solution
• To cater the pain points of Dell Customers ,Dell is
providing a solution to leverage the operating system
deployment (OSD) capabilities using Microsoft System
Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr/SCCM 2012
)/KACE/MDT with the Dell Client System Deployment
CABs (Dell Command | Deploy Driver Pack) to deploy a
customized OS image on Dell client systems.

5. Introduction to Driver Cabs
• Cab Consist of raw drivers and Manifest.xml
• Manifest.xml carries the information regarding drivers packed in the cab Cab
Structure
• CABs are of three types:
 System CABs :designed for deployment to a single model
 Combo CABs: designed for deployment to multiple models
 WinPE CABs : designed to provide required drivers for WinPE to boot a Dell machine
• A driver Cab is released for an Operating System Family
• A New Driver CAB is spun based on set of Drivers availability for list of devices,
It might be new or either old.
• Cabs are released on the cadence like monthly, once in two months , Quarterly

6. Line of Business Supported
• Optiplex
• Latitude
• Mobile Precision
• Desktop Precision
• Tablets
• XPS

7. Supported Os & Architecture
Operating system :
– Windows Vista
– Windows XP
– Windows 7
– Windows 8
– Windows 8.1
Architecture:
– x32-bit
– x64-bit

8. Supported Configurations For Deployment
Note: In SCCM 2012 R2, DCIP 3.1 is used only for driver CAB import. WinPE import is not
supported.
Sl.
No
SCCM Setup Driver CAB OS
Support(Target/Client
Systems)
DCIP
Support
1 SCCM 2007 Vista, XP, Win7 2.0
2 SCCM 2012 Vista, XP, Win7, Win8 3.0
3 SCCM 2012 Sp1 Vista, XP, Win7, Win8 3.1
4 SCCM 2012 R2 Vista, XP, Win7, Win8,
Win8.1
3.1*

9. WinPE Support
Backward Compatibility of OS is supported on
WinPE

10. Pre-requisite
• System Centre Configuration Manager(SCCM) needs to
be installed on a server
• Dell Client Integration Pack(DCIP) needs to be installed
• Download the required winpe driver cab and Driver cab
from Support site
• Obtain the OS image

11. Deployment
Deployment typically refers to install OS with drivers
includes following steps to be deployed through sccm to
target box
-Download driver cab needed for deployment for a specific
Operating Systems.
-Inject Winpe drivers to boot image
-Build Images for mass deployment of Operating Systems.
-Import drivers into the boot image
-Create Task Sequence
- OS Deployment

12. Inject Winpe drivers

13. Steps to inject winpe drivers to boot
image
• Download the Winpe driver cab from support site
• Extract cab and copy it to the local host/UNC share path
• Ensure Default boot images are present in sccm console
• Follow the below slides to add winpe drivers to the boot
images
• Below slides show to add drivers for one architecture
only ,same procedure has to be followed for other
architecture as well

14. • Open Config Manager console ,Select Operating
Systems ,Select drivers and click Import Driver

15. Import Driver wizard is opened

16. Copy Winpe cab to UNC path and extract the cab
Browse and select the drivers to be injected

19. Select required boot image and check Update distribution points

20. Click Next

22. drivers are imported successfully to boot image

23. After drivers are imported ,select the boot image and click
on properties

24. Properties window is open click on drivers tab to ensure
all the drivers are imported

25. Tick the option as shown

26. Tick the options as shown

27. Creating os image

28. Steps to create os image
• Copy the required iso os image to local host or UNC
share path
• Extract iso image
• Follow the next slides to create os image required for os
deployment

29. Open Config manager console ,Select Operating System
Image and click on Add Operating System Image

30. Operating System Image Wizard is Opened, Browse and
point to the os image folder where os image is extracted

31. Select install.wim and click open

32. Ensure install.wim is selected and click next

33. Provide a name, version and comment for Operating
system image and click next

34. Operating System Image Added Successfully

35. Select Operating System Image ,click on the Image added
in the previous steps and select properties

36. Tick the check box for the option shown

37. Select options as shown

38. Select the image added ,click on properties and distribute
content

39. Ensure correct os is selected and click on next

40. Click on add and select Distribution point

41. Ensure Distribution point is selected and select ok

42. Ensure os image is distributed successfully

43. Select the image click on properties and select Update
Distribution Points

44. Click ok

45. • Ensure Content status is in green ,try refreshing many times to turn into
green

46. Import Driver Cab

47. Steps to Import Driver Cab
• Download the Driver cab required for a platform and
specific to os
• Copy cab to localhost /UNC share path
• Follow next slides to import cab through DCIP

48. Open Config Manager console ,Select Dell System Cab Driver Package, right
click ,select Dell Client Integration Pack and then Import Client Driver Package

49. Client Integration Wizard is opened

50. Ensure default architectures are supported, select
distribution point

51. Ensure Cab extraction

52. Ensure importing drivers for x64 architecture

53. Importing drivers for x86 architecture

54. Importing of drivers is successful

55. Create Task Sequence

56. Steps to create task sequence
• Once os image is created, Winpe drivers are added to
boot image and driver cab is imported successfully then
follow the next slides to add all the above created
packages to task sequence

57. Open config manager console,Select Bare Metal Client
Deployment template as shown

58. Bare metal client deployment task template is opened

59. Provide the details like Task Sequence Name, network
account details

60. Task sequence created

61. Select edit to make changes

62. Click Ok to add the packages to task sequence

63. Task sequence editor window is opened

64. Apply driver package created in the earlier steps

65. Ensure Driver package is chosen

66. Add details for Windows settings as shown

67. Enter domain name and the account credentials

68. Select package for Setup window and configmanager and
click on apply and ok .

69. Right click on the task sequence and select properties ,
select the boot image

70. Ensure all the packages are 100% Compliance, by clicking
reference tab at the bottom

71. Select deploy

72. Deploy Sequence Wizard is seen and click next

73. Select All Systems

74. Select option as shown

75. Select below options

76. Click Next

78. OS Deployment

79. Steps to be performed in target box
• When the task sequence is deployed from sccm , Connect Network
cable to target box
• In the target box Press F2 and enable On-board nic option to boot
from Pxe, select required modes AHCI or RAID or ATA mode and
click apply
• Press F12 and select On-board Nic option and then boot window
prompts user to press F12, then loads the default boot image
available from the distribution points
• Task sequence wizard is seen,select the task sequence created in
earlier steps and proceed with the deployment process
• After OS deployment is complete, login and check in device
manager to ensure no yellow bang is seen.

80. Device Manager has all the devices installed with out any
yellow bang

81. Cab structure

82. References
• Links to download cabs :
• http://www.dell.com/support/my-
support/us/en/04?c=&l=&s=bsd
• http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise
-client/w/wiki/2065.dell-driver-cab-files-for-
enterprise-client-os-deployment.aspx#WinPE
• White paper on Client Os deployment with config manager
2007 :
• http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/
white_papers/20183233.aspx

83. Thank You