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March 31st, 2016 10:00

XPS 13 9350 Driver Pack

Hi,  I have been working with Dell engineering, but still wanted to ask the question here.

I have downloaded and imported the XPS 13 9350 driver pack (Win 7 x64). Of course, when you import it, there is driver bloat. But the one I am most interested in is the Realtek Audio driver. It imports over 30 drivers. I know most are not needed, but even so, i didnt remove the ones I and DELL verified weren't installing during SCCM OSD build.  In the past, i have just left everything alone, but was thinking about stripping out everything I know that doesn't PnP.  DELL wasn't sure if the ramifications of doing it and I needed to test.  I have spent 5 weeks on these laptops.

I know others are not a fan of driver packages, specifically for this reason. And they only import what doesn't come with OS source.  i want to use all of the DELL drivers.  This has added about 30-40 minutes to my build process. The longest step in the whole build is the "Apply Drivers" (not auto apply, for that model only).  I just downloaded the latest driver pack that came out and it has a few new drivers, and is even bigger. On my first import, I dont even see those drivers, just the dock usb audio drivers.  Even though i pointed to the entire folder that contains those drivers.  I am currently importing those specific drives to see how they show up. Not sure why they wouldn't have imported in the first place.

Any advice or feedback is appreciated.

SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2.

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March 31st, 2016 12:00

OK, just tried importing the audio drivers only.  By default, the "Hide drivers that are not digitally signed" is checked and apparently, they arent signed. Still would like to know which drivers i can safely remove if anyone knows for sure.  I dont have the kind of time it would take to test all.

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