Configure Devices and Printers - Staging drivers in the driver store

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All Drivers:
- Get-WindowsDriver -online -all
- dism /online /get-drivers /all

Third-party drivers only:
- Get-WindowsDriver -online
- dism /online /get-drivers
- pnputil /enum-drivers

Search for the .INF files provided by the above commands, they will provide more detailed information when opened with a text editor.

How to add a Driver to the Driver store


Online
- pnputil /add-driver <filepath to .inf>

Offline (An OS image that is mounted to the system)
- dism /image:c:\<imagefolder> /add-driver /driver:c:\<driverfolder>\driver.inf.
- Add the /recurse switch if there are multiple sub directories.
OR
- Add-WindowsDriver -Path "c:\<imagefolder>" -Driver "c:\<driverfolder>"

How to mount an image file to a folder using DISM

Dism /mount-image /imagefile:c:\<filepath.ISO/.WIM> /index:1 /mountdir:c:\<folder path>
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How to unmount an image using DISM


Dism /unmount-image /mountdir:c:\<folder path> /commit.

/commit is used to save the changes, without /commit the changes will be discarded.

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