Windows 10: During MDT deployment, USB network adapter fails to install after boot

Hello,

Having an interesting one.

Deploying a Windows 10 custom image using WDS/MDT.

Using a Dell XPS 13 9350 and the Dell USB 3.0 Ethernet adapter.

I'm able to boot to PXE, load Boot.wim to access my MDT task sequence, which then starts without issue.

The OS is installed, drivers are loaded, then it reboots to boot into Windows and complete the task sequence.

Once its booted into windows 10, the USB network adapter fails to initialize, shows that its failed installation in the device manager even though the device shows as having the correct driver. Unplugging and plugging the adapter back in allows the usb network adapter install and then I'm able to continue the task sequence which has another 2 reboots but doesn't have the issue again.

I've verified the correct nic drivers are being injected for the adapter but it just fails.

Log shows that its failing to load the driver for the usb nic.

This whole process works fine on other hardware I am using. I'm not seeing any driver conflict at all.

Thoughts? Recommendations?

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Need help with combining Powershell with WDS

I use the MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) to accomplish this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deploy...

You combine MDT with the WDS

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-dep...

When you do that you can use the MDTs task sequence to generate a task that will allow you to drop scripts in during pre and post deployment.

 

Media creation tool for windows 10

The Media Creator tool isn't for that (it will just create a standard install media disc or USB stick for you), but the tools to do what you want do exist. You could check out

how to create a Windows 10 reference image,
how to deploy an image using MDT (one of many management tools), or for more discussion, check Microsoft's IT forums where

professionals that do this daily like to chat.