How to Enable or Disable a Windows Driver in Configuration Manager

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10/04/2022

You enable or disable a Windows driver in the operating system deployment driver catalog, in Configuration Manager, by setting the IsEnabled property of the SMS_Driver Server WMI Class object. A driver can be disabled to prevent it from being installed by the Auto Apply Driver action in a task sequence.

To enable or disable a Windows driver

Set up a connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see SMS Provider fundamentals.
Get the SMS_Driver object for the driver you want to enable or disable.
Set the IsEnabled property to true to enable the driver, or to false to disable the driver.
Commit the SMS_Driver object changes.

Example

The following example method enables or disables a driver depending on the value of the enableDriver parameter.

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

Sub EnableDriver(connection,driverID,vEnableDriver)  

        ' Get the driver.  
        Set driver = connection.Get("SMS_Driver.CI_ID=" & driverID)  

        ' Set the flag.  
        driver.IsEnabled=vEnableDriver  

        ' Commit changes.  
        driver.Put_  

End Sub

public void EnableDriver(  
    WqlConnectionManager connection,   
    int driverID,   
    bool enableDriver)  
{  
    try  
    {  
        // Get the driver.  
        IResultObject driver = connection.GetInstance("SMS_Driver.CI_ID=" + driverID);  

        // Set the flag.  
        driver["IsEnabled"].BooleanValue = enableDriver;  

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

The example method has the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
`connection`	- Managed: `WqlConnectionManager` - VBScript: SWbemServices	A valid connection to the SMS Provider.
`driverID`	- Managed: `Integer` - VBScript: `Integer`	The Windows driver identifier available in `SMS_Driver.CI_ID`.
`enableDriver`	- Managed: `String` - VBScript: `String`	Flag to enable or disable the driver. `true` - The driver is enabled. `false` - The driver is disabled.

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.

.NET Framework Security

For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see Configuration Manager role-based administration.

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