Designing Driver Packages for Corporate Deployment

Corporate information technology (IT) departments must be able to deploy driver updates quickly across servers and desktop systems without any user intervention. Device vendors can help their customers reach this goal by taking advantage of new features in Windows Vista to create driver packages that are ready for deployment. Specifically, these driver packages install without prompting the user and do not require users to have administrative privileges.

This paper describes best practices developers can follow to create driver packages for corporate deployment.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000

In this white paper:

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