What's new in Driver Automation Tool 6.4.5 Build 2020-03-09
Mar 9, 2020
- Updated Dell Flash64w download location in order to download latest available build. Fixed UI elements not disabling in the admin control.
- Fixed OS selection on initial load not disabling Dell if the previous OS selection was a Windows 10
- Build specific selection.
- Updated Find Model button to find but not select, and added Find + Select button
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.4.4 Build 2020-02-22 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Fixes for Lenovo driver packaging due to package switch changes and native driver package imports. Added support for ZIP compression of standard packages
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.4.3 Build 2020-02-01 (Feb 1, 2020)
- OOB update release to cater for changes in HP extraction switches. Driver package creation times reduced. Reduced code base. Note: Intune functionality disabled in this release, to follow in 6.5.0
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.4.1 Build 2019-12-05 (Dec 5, 2019)
- Fixed Lenovo JavaScript / IE parsing issues. Custom creation baseboard issue fixed. Package description shortened to accomodate Lenovo driver packages with high number of SKU values
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.3.1 Build 2019-08-03 (Aug 5, 2019)
- Fixed issues with SKU value change causing download and packaging issues with HP & Lenovo packages
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.2.0 Build 2019-04-29 (Apr 30, 2019)
- New installer based deployment. Updates and fixes. Windows 10 1903 support
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.1.7 Build 2019-3-5 (Mar 5, 2019)
- Fix: Condition whereby not all selected models are saved within the XML settings file
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.1.6 Build 2019-02-22 (Feb 22, 2019)
- Fix: Reset tool form issues resolved
- Fix: Logging timezone issues resolved
- Fix: Source package clean up issues resolved
- Additional checking for MDT and ConfigMgr platforms
- Removal of legacy code
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.1.5 Build 2019-01-23 (Jan 23, 2019)
- HP BIOS download fix
- Added move to Windows 10 1809 build in package management
- Manufacturer correction for Microsoft custom packages
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.1.4 Build 2018-12-21 (Dec 27, 2018)
- Improved GUI response for make and OS selections
- Fix for some Dell models not finding the BIOS download link URL
- Additional MDT driver path options
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.1.2 Build 2018-05-10 (Oct 5, 2018)
- Improved compiled EXE
- Added support for Windows 10 1809 when manufactures support downloads
- Microsoft Surface Windows 10 build support
- Minor GUI improvements
- Improved supersedence of drivers
- Added supersedence of BIOS packages
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.1.10 Build 2018-09-06 (Sep 7, 2018)
- Support for Lenovo Windows 10 version driver packages
- Added support for third party WinPE imaging through XML based machine for MDM
- Added admin controls to hide tabs
- Updated driver package name formatting to use Windows 10 version instead of build
- Added conversion for Windows 10 packages with version numbeers to build numbers
- All download links now use HTTPS
- Updated URL for Dell Flash64W utility and changed download matching
- Added model count indicator on search page
- Added additional GUI feedback during model source downloads
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.9 Build 2018-08-03 (Aug 3, 2018)
- HF - HP BIOS download issue fix
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.9 Build 2018-06-19 (Jun 19, 2018)
- Lenovo model lookup failure fix. Lenovo Windows 10 download matching workaround. Current download will use latest Windows 10 build download link until build numbers are available in the XML. Data grid updates for both Models and Package Management sections to clearer highlight selected values
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.8 Build 2018-06-06 (Jun 6, 2018)
- HP SoftPaq packaging code changes. Fix for HP 1803 downloads and catalogue XML issuess. SCCM custom folder code optimisation. Bits enabled by default, can be disabled by setting the option manually and then closing the GUI to commit the save. Additional error handling.
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.7 Build 2018-05-28 (May 28, 2018)
- Fix for HP catalouge XML extract.
- Added OS build number to custom packages where HP is the make.
- Removed OS info from BIOS packages
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.6 Build 2018-05-01 (May 1, 2018)
- Windwos 10 Build 1803 support added (HP)
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.5 Build 2018-04-25 (Apr 25, 2018)
- HP matching logic updated. Custom SCCM console root logic updated
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.4 Build 2018-04-10 (Apr 25, 2018)
- Fix for Dell system links not being found for some models when downloading BIOS or driver packages.
- DP & DPG's datagrid will now clear on each detection.
- Added the ability to provide a custom packages root folder structure or drop all packages into the root folder
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.3 Build 2018-04-06 (Apr 10, 2018)
- A couple more code tweaks and fixes
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.1 Build 2018-03-30 (Mar 30, 2018)
New in Driver Automation Tool 6.0.0 Build 2018-03-29 (Mar 29, 2018)
- New Graphical Layout. HP Softpaq Driver Catalog Support. Storage Changes. Find Model / Driver Feature
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.2.1 Build 2018-02-19 (Feb 19, 2018)
- Updated Dell multiple model package matching
- Updated BITS job reporting / handling
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.2.0 Build 2018-02-07 (Feb 8, 2018)
- Code changes and optimisation throughout the script
- Update for Dell XML's containing duplicate model matches with different SKU values
- Bits jobs download file sizes will now be compared for driver downloads
- Additional checks for BIOS download completion
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.6 Build 2018-01-25 (Jan 25, 2018)
- Code update and MDT import fix
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.6 Build 2018-01-19 (Jan 19, 2018)
- Fix for Lenovo BIOS extracts resulting in empty packages
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.6 Build 2018-01-17 (Jan 17, 2018)
- Update for Lenovo Windows 8.1 driver matches
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.4 Build 2018-01-12 (Jan 12, 2018)
- Updates to the code that deals with BIOS downloads. Updates to the HP BIOS download parsing code due to XML formatting changes
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.4 Build 2018-01-08 (Jan 8, 2018)
- Lenovo Update - Important: Package name will no longer include the SKU value in the package name. Processing updates and minor tweaks.
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.3 Build 2018-01-04 (Jan 5, 2018)
- Updated method for determining web service build
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.1.1 (Dec 28, 2017)
- Added MDM/MBM diagnostics tab for testing connectivity to the ConfigMgr WebService
New in Driver Automation Tool 5.0.8 (Nov 28, 2017)
- Added WMI known models for HP. Added additional check for known models so they now display only where the OS selected is supported.
New in Driver Automation Tool 4.0.6 (Jul 21, 2017)
- Dell BIOS download bug fix. Updates to the XML now have models sharing the bios listed with / separators. Added a condition to check that and also to report if no matching bios was found.
New in Driver Automation Tool 3.8 (Jun 5, 2017)
- Reduced HP extracted paths by only copying the driver folders and not the HP folder structure
New in Driver Automation Tool 3.6 (May 27, 2017)
- Added support for Lenovo BIOS downloads. The file is downloaded but not packaged as Lenovo BIOS updates are non uniform in their application Fixed issue with downloads selected to "All" attempting BIOS downloads for manufacturers which are not currently supported by the BIOS download process Changed clean up process. The script will no longer clean up the EXE/CAB files unless selected in the clean up tab
New in Driver Automation Tool 3.5 (May 17, 2017)
- Added check for HP driver extraction due to issues with some softpaqs not obeying the silent extract directory path
- Changed network path text boxes to modern folder browse boxes
- MIF revision added