How to Import a Windows Driver Described by an INF File into Configuration Manager

Article
05/03/2011

Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

You can import a Windows driver that is described by an information (.inf) file, in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, by using the CreateFromINF Method in Class SMS_Driver.

To import a Windows driver

Set up a connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see About the SMS Provider in Configuration Manager.
Call the CreateFromINF Method in Class SMS_Driver to get the initial SMS_Driver Server WMI Class management base object.
Create an instance of SMS_Driver by using the management base object.
Populate the SMS_Driver object.
Commit the SMS_Driver object.

Example

The following example method creates an SMS_Driver object for a Windows driver by using the supplied path and file name. The example also enables the driver by setting the value of the IsEnabled property to true. The helper function GetDriverName is used to get the name of the driver from the driver package XML.

Note

The path parameter must be supplied as a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) network path, for example, \\localhost\Drivers\ATIVideo\.

In the example, the LocaleID property is hard-coded to English (U.S.). If you need the locale for non-U.S. installations, you can get it from the SMS_Identification Server WMI ClassLocaleID property.

For information about calling the sample code, see Calling Configuration Manager Code Snippets.

Sub ImportINFDriver(connection, path, name)

    Dim driverClass
    Dim inParams
    Dim outParams
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
    ' Obtain an instance of the class 
    ' using a key property value.

    Set driverClass = connection.Get("SMS_Driver")

    ' Obtain an InParameters object specific
    ' to the method.
    Set inParams = driverClass.Methods_("CreateFromINF"). _
        inParameters.SpawnInstance_()

    ' Add the input parameters.
    inParams.Properties_.Item("DriverPath") =  path
    inParams.Properties_.Item("INFFile") =  name

    ' Call the method.
    ' The OutParameters object in outParams
    ' is created by the provider.
    Set outParams = connection.ExecMethod("SMS_Driver", "CreateFromINF", inParams)

   If Err <> 0 Then
        Wscript.Echo "Failed to add to the driver catalog: " + path + "\" + name
        Exit Sub
    End If    
                
    outParams.Driver.IsEnabled =  True
          
    Dim LocalizedSettings(0)
    Set LocalizedSettings(0) = connection.Get("SMS_CI_LocalizedProperties").SpawnInstance_()
    LocalizedSettings(0).Properties_.item("LocaleID") =  1033 
    LocalizedSettings(0).Properties_.item("DisplayName") = _
            GetDriverName(outParams.Driver.SDMPackageXML, "//DisplayName", "Text")

    LocalizedSettings(0).Properties_.item("Description") = ""        
    outParams.Driver.LocalizedInformation = LocalizedSettings

    ' Save the driver.
    outParams.Driver.Put_
     
End Sub

Function GetDriverName(xmlContent, nodeName, attributeName)
    ' Load the XML Document
    Dim attrValue
    Dim XMLDoc
    Dim objNode
    Dim displayNameNode
    
    attrValue = ""
    Set XMLDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")     
    XMLDoc.async = False
    XMLDoc.loadXML(xmlContent)
    
    'Check for a successful load of the XML Document.
    If xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0 Then
        WScript.Echo vbcrlf & "Error loading XML Document. Error Code : 0x" & hex(xmldoc.parseerror.errorcode)
        WScript.Echo "Reason: " & xmldoc.parseerror.reason
        WScript.Echo "Parse Error line " & xmldoc.parseError.line & ", character " & _
                      xmldoc.parseError.linePos & vbCrLf & xmldoc.parseError.srcText
    
        GetXMLAttributeValue = ""        
    Else
        ' Select the node
        Set objNode = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode(nodeName)
        
        If Not objNode Is Nothing Then
            ' Found the element, now just pick up the Text attribute value
            Set displayNameNode = objNode.attributes.getNamedItem(attributeName)
            If Not displayNameNode Is Nothing Then
               attrValue = displayNameNode.value
            Else
               WScript.Echo "Attribute not found"
            End If
        Else
            WScript.Echo "Failed to locate " & nodeName & " element."
        End If
    End If
    
    ' Save the results
    GetDriverName = attrValue
End Function

public void ImportInfDriver(
    WqlConnectionManager connection, 
    string path, 
    string name)
{
    try
    {
        Dictionary<string, object> inParams = new Dictionary<string, object>();

        // Set up parameters for the path and file name.
        inParams.Add("DriverPath", path);
        inParams.Add("INFFile", name);

        // Import the INF file.
        IResultObject result = connection.ExecuteMethod("SMS_Driver", "CreateFromINF", inParams);

        // Create the SMS_Driver driver instance from the management base object returned in result["Driver"].
        IResultObject driver = connection.CreateInstance(result["Driver"].ObjectValue);

        // Enable the driver.
        driver["IsEnabled"].BooleanValue = true;

        List<IResultObject> driverInformationList = driver.GetArrayItems("LocalizedInformation");

        // Set up the display name and other information.
        IResultObject driverInfo = connection.CreateEmbeddedObjectInstance("SMS_CI_LocalizedProperties");
        driverInfo["DisplayName"].StringValue = GetDriverName(driver);
        driverInfo["LocaleID"].IntegerValue = 1033;
        driverInfo["Description"].StringValue = "";

        driverInformationList.Add(driverInfo);

        driver.SetArrayItems("LocalizedInformation", driverInformationList);

        // Commit the SMS_Driver object.
        driver.Put();
    }
    catch (SmsException e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Failed to import driver: " + e.Message);
        throw;
    }
}

public string GetDriverName(IResultObject driver)        
{
    // Extract 
    XmlDocument sdmpackage = new XmlDocument();

    sdmpackage.LoadXml(driver.Properties["SDMPackageXML"].StringValue);


    // Iterate over all the <DisplayName/> tags.
    foreach (XmlNode displayName in sdmpackage.GetElementsByTagName("DisplayName"))         
    {                
    // Grab the first one with a Text attribute not equal to null.
        if (displayName != null && displayName.Attributes["Text"] != null  
            && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(displayName.Attributes["Text"].Value))  
        {                      
                // Return the DisplayName text.
                return displayName.Attributes["Text"].Value;    
        }            
    } 
    // Default the driverName to the UniqueID.
    return driver["CI_UniqueID"].StringValue;       
 }

The example method has the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
connection	Managed: WqlConnectionManager VBScript: SWbemServices	A valid connection to the SMS Provider.
path	Managed: String VBScript: String	A valid UNC network path to the folder that contains the driver contents. For example, \\Servers\Driver\VideoDriver.
name	Managed: String VBScript: String	The name of the .inf file. For example, ATI.inf.

Compiling the Code

This C# example requires:

Namespaces

System

System.Collections.Generic

System.Text

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider.WqlQueryEngine

Assembly

microsoft.configurationmanagement.managementprovider

adminui.wqlqueryengine

Robust Programming

For more information about error handling, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Security

For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see About Securing Configuration Manager Applications.

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