In reply to Adrian Marsh.

Hi Adrian,

Great question.

Our update tool will not install a driver if there's already the same driver or a later one installed. That device will simply be ignored and you'll keep the driver that was already there.

We don't currently have logic in the SCCM targeting to check versions of all drivers you have and if all are the same or later, skip over your device altogether so you won't be prompted. While I think this would be ideal, unfortunately each laptop has multiple drivers included (the currently deployed X1 has 12 drivers for instance) and managing that logic and keeping it up to date didn't seem practical.

This is our first go at this, so depending on feedback we could revisit it, but at this stage even if you have all the latest drivers (or even ones later than those we're deploying) you'll still get prompted to install our baseline.

In normal operations, your drivers should never get downgraded. The only exception I could foresee is if there's a known bad driver version that's been released either by us or through other avenues that our OnTrack analysis shows is causing instability or has been identified as insecure, in which case we'd likely deploy a special task to downgrade the driver to a known good version to remedy the issue.

Will