https://www.verboon.info/tags/windows-8-1-update/Recent content in Windows-8-1-Update on Anything About ITHugoen-usFri, 04 Apr 2014 19:43:09 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2014/04/how-to-export-third-party-driver-packages-using-powershell/Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:43:09 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2014/04/how-to-export-third-party-driver-packages-using-powershell/<p>Windows 8.1 Update introduces a new cmdlet that allows you to export third-party drivers that are located within the driver store of a Windows client.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-powershell" data-lang="powershell"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">$ExpDrv</span> = <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">Export-WindowsDriver</span> -Online -Destination c:\temp\3rdpartydrivers </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>```powershell </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>The result, all drivers exported into the provided destination directory </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>![<span style="color:#bd93f9">2014</span>-<span style="color:#bd93f9">04</span>-04_21h36_47](images/<span style="color:#bd93f9">2014</span>-<span style="color:#bd93f9">04</span>-04_21h36_47_thumb.png) </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>Now we have a whole bunch of folders, but what drivers did we actually export? </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>```powershell </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">$ExpDrv</span> | <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">Select-Object</span> ClassName, ProviderName, Date, Version | <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">Sort-Object</span> ClassName </span></span></code></pre></div><p> <img src="images/2014-04-04_21h40_00_thumb.png" alt="2014-04-04_21h40_00"> </p>