Although this program limits the number of downloads you can perform per day, you can still check for outdated drivers as often as you want. You're just limited when it comes to downloading them. I talk more in the review about why this isn't as bad of a limit as it might sound.
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There's a program called Driver Booster for Windows that I use sometimes to update drivers that I cannot find easily. Since I switched over to using Ubuntu for my laptop, I just use sudo apt upgrade for updating packages on my machine. But I'm not sure whether that will also update my drivers to the newest version. Is there a program on Ubuntu that shows me outdated drivers on my machine and let me update them?
The exceptions, such as some WiFi NIC drivers, and GPU drivers, may or may not be upgraded with an apt upgrade depending on a couple factors (such as whether or not the package is "held back"). You can control the installed version of these drivers through Software & Updates --> Additional Drivers.
I am using PVS 2012 to deploy Windows 2019 server on ESXi 6.5. When I run Windows update, it keeps pushing the "VMware, Inc. - net - 1.8.17.0" driver update, and I cannot prevent it from installing. This causes the image to BSOD during boot after installation.
I have seen this a couple of times. I generally recommend to NOT update virtual machine tools drivers via Windows Update, this has to be a controlled process. You can configure a group policy/registry setting, to prevent drivers from Windows Update/WSUS.
With Windows Driver Update Management in Microsoft Intune, you can review, approve for deployment and pause deployments of driver updates for your managed Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices. Intune and the Windows Update for Business (WUfB) deployment service (DS) take care of the heavy lifting to identify the applicable driver updates for devices that are assigned a driver updates policy. Intune and WUfB-DS sort updates by categories that help you easily identify the recommended driver updates for all devices, or updates that might be considered optional for more limited use.
Enable automatic approvals of recommended driver updates. Policies set for automatic approval automatically approve and deploy each new driver update version that is considered a recommended driver for the devices assigned to the policy. Recommended drivers are typically the latest driver update published by the driver publisher that the publisher has marked as required. Drivers that aren't identified as the current recommended driver are also available as other drivers, which can be considered to be optional driver updates.
Later, when a newer driver update from the OEM is released and identified as the current recommended driver update, Intune automatically adds it to the policy and moves the previously recommended driver to the list of other drivers.
An approved recommended driver update that is moved to the other drivers list due to a newer recommended driver update becoming available, remains approved. When a newer recommended and approved driver update is available, WUfB-DS will install only that latest approved version. If the latest approved update version is paused, the deployment service will automatically offer the next most recent and approved update version, which is now on the other drivers list. This behavior ensures that the last known-good driver update version that was approved can continue to install on devices, while the more recent recommended version remains paused.
Configure policy to require manual approval of all updates. This policy ensures that administrators must approve a driver update before it can be deployed. Newer versions of driver updates for devices with this policy are automatically added to the policy but remain inactive until approved.
Later, when a newer driver update from the OEM is recommended for a device in the policy, the policy status updates to indicate there are drivers pending your review. This status becomes a call to action to review the policy and decide if you want to approve deployment of the newest drivers to devices.
Regardless of the policy configuration and the drivers included, only approved drivers can install on devices. Additionally, Windows Update only installs the latest available and approved update when the version is more recent than the one currently installed on the device.
Before you create policies and manage the approval of drivers in your policies, we recommend constructing a driver update deployment plan that includes team members who can approve driver and firmware updates. Subjects to consider include:
Use of deployment rings for driver update policies to limit installation of new driver updates to test groups of devices before broadly installing those updates on all devices. With this approach, your team can identify potential issues in an early ring before deploying updates broadly. Use of rings can provide you with time to pause a troublesome update in subsequent rings to delay or prevent its deployment. Examples of organizational approaches for rings include:
Assign devices to only one driver update policy to help prevent a device from having its drivers managed through more than one policy. This can help avoid having a driver installed by one policy when you previously declined or paused that same update in a separate policy.For more information about planning deployments, see Create a deployment plan in the Windows deployment documentation.
To help avoid issues that require rolling back a driver from large numbers of devices, use deployment rings to limit driver installation to small initial groups of devices. This approach allows time to evaluate the success or compatibility of a driver before broadly deploying it across your organization.
Consider a device that receives driver updates from two policies. In one policy, a specific update is approved and in the other policy, that update is paused. Because the status of approved always wins, the driver installs on the device despite any other status for that update that is set in any other policy.
To ensure that the list of available drivers is up-to-date, drivers with older versions than those already installed across all devices targeted by a policy are no longer applicable. These older drivers are removed from the driver list of previously deployed and active policies. Only drivers that can update the driver version currently installed on a device targeted by a policy remain available in the policy.
For months I keep getting prompted by the Intel Driver Support Assistant Windows program that I have a new update available for my Intel UHD Graphics 630 card to driver version 27.20.100.9664 when it redirects me to -driver-support-assistant.html, but checking in Device Manager I already have the driver, published by Intel.
It also prompts me that if I have an OEM driver installed (like from Dell), then to use that instead; if that is the case, do I need the Intel Driver Support Assistant installed at all? Dell and Windows Update report no new drivers/updates available. The Intel DSA is the latest version.
In reference to this scenario, you mentioned "It also prompts me that if I have an OEM driver installed (like from Dell), then to use that instead", that is correct, we always recommend to install the drivers provided by the manufacturer of the computer, since that driver was customized by them to work with your specific platform, that should be the proper driver for your system. The Intel drivers are generic, meaning they might or might not work with your specific platform.
"do I need the Intel Driver Support Assistant installed at all?" That is actually up to you, many customers prefer to update the drivers manually others prefer to use the tool, but as long as you keep checking the website from the OEM for updates on drivers that are done normally every few months you can always uninstall the Intel Driver Support Assistant and keep updating the drivers manually.
"I will uninstall the Intel DSA", perfect, excellent, we completely understand your decision and respect it as well. As long as you keep checking the manufacturer's website for updates there will be no problems at all with your machine in regards to drivers.
As Alberto & Scott advised, if you have a PC from a 'PC (I'll go with that) OEM' (Original Equipment Manufacturer), like Dell or HP (ready to use out of the box), you'll want to use the 'OEM tool' updater that they provide. If it's fresh from the factory it should be preinstalled & in your apps, if it's not a web search will find where to get it. Just make sure to get it from the manufacturer's website.
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