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K2000 creating a Symlink for drivers_postinstall

Have not seen anything on this topic but I am sure others are affected as well.

With the recent updates to Windows 10 it changed the entire drivers_postinstall path for our driver feed.

What used to be windows_10_x64 for example is now Microsoft Windows 10 Pro_x64
Sometimes we may have reason to use an older or newer version of Windows 10 so I need both feeds at the same time, but it makes little sense to have two copies of several gigs of driver data and makes it harder to maintain.

I know on my local computers I can use Junctions/Symlinks for this kind of problem, but you cant do that for a remote resource like a UNC path.  It has to be done local.

Is there any official fix for this?  Or, would this require some kind of shady hacking by running a rule or script on the K2000 to do the task?

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Posted by: Desktop Jockey 6 years ago
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As far as I know there is no way to link the driver shares like this. However, in theory you could make this happen. 

In the built in copy_drivers.vbs there are location adjusters that you could add to:
If (InStr(strProd,"Windows 8") > 0) Then strProd="windows_8"
Elseif strProd = "windows_8" and strArc = "x64" Then
strProd = "windows_8_x64"
ElseIf strProd = "windows_8" and strArc = "x86" Then
strProd = "windows_8_x86"

So you could uncheck the Get drivers from driver feed, Modify this vbs and set it as the last mid task. 
The file will be located under \\k2000\petemp\applications\*\copy_drivers.vbs. mine is in the 300 dir but i believe that changes.

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