Manage Device Drivers, Language Packs, and Applications
Applies To: Windows 8.1
For a Windows 8.1 deployment to PCs in education you can use language packs, device drivers, and software updates to customize your deployment.
You can customize deployments by including additional device drivers, language packs, and software updates as part of the configuration. A thin imaging strategy reduces maintenance when adding these customizations, because the customizations are maintained independent of the deployment image.
Language packs. Language packs are maintained as packages with System Center Configuration Manager. When deploying Windows by using a Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) strategy, you can bundle language packs as needed for a deployment. See Understanding Language Packs for more information.
Device drivers. You can create a System Center Configuration Manager driver package that can install one or more device drivers onto target computers. Add this package to the operating system at deployment.
Software updates. You can include updates with a deployment, which ensures that deployed computers are up to date at deployment time and also means less time is needed to maintain a thick image.
Once deployed, you can use System Center Configuration Manager to apply updates.