Update-OSDeployCoreDrivers

Downloads and expands WinPE driver packages into the OSDeployCore library.

Property	Value
Module	OSDeploy
Platform	Windows 11 (amd64 / arm64)
Requires	PowerShell 7.6, internet access
Output	System.IO.FileInfo

Description

Refreshes the requested catalog sources, resolves the matching WinPE driver packages, and downloads and expands the selected packages to $env:ProgramData\OSDeployCore.

All matching packages are processed automatically without prompting. Use -Name to limit the refresh to one or more specific sources, -SkipWifiDrivers to exclude wireless packages, and -DownloadOnly to cache files without expanding them.

Wi-Fi driver sources are excluded automatically when no imported OS sources are present — ADK WinPE does not support wireless hardware, so Wi-Fi drivers are only needed when a WinRE-based boot image will be built.

After downloading, drivers are injected into WinPE at build time by Build-OSDeployBoot.

Syntax

Update-OSDeployCoreDrivers [[-Name] <String[]>] [-Force] [-SkipWifiDrivers] [-DownloadOnly] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
-Name	String[]	No	One or more source names to refresh and process. When omitted, all configured sources are refreshed.
-Force	Switch	No	Re-downloads driver packages even when a matching cached file already exists.
-SkipWifiDrivers	Switch	No	Excludes Wi-Fi driver packages (intel-wifi, microsoft-windows-wifi). Enforced automatically when no imported OS sources exist.
-DownloadOnly	Switch	No	Downloads packages to the cache without expanding them. No package.json metadata is written.

Examples

# Refresh the Dell catalog and download all matching packages
Update-OSDeployCoreDrivers -Name 'dell'

# Refresh Dell and HP catalogs, preview without executing
Update-OSDeployCoreDrivers -Name 'dell', 'hp' -WhatIf

# Refresh all configured sources and download all available packages
Update-OSDeployCoreDrivers

# Refresh all configured sources, excluding Wi-Fi packages
Update-OSDeployCoreDrivers -SkipWifiDrivers